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67%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured, actionable instruction skill with a clear sequenced workflow and explicit completion criteria. Its main weakness is repeated guardrail language (registry-write prohibitions restated many times) that inflates token cost without adding new information.
Suggestions
State the 'never writes memory/launch-registry directly — candidates only' rule once in the Skill Contract and reference it rather than restating it in the intro, Scope guard, Instructions step 9, and Save Results.
Consolidate the duplicate scope-boundary content between the opening paragraph and the dedicated 'Scope guard' section into a single location.
Add an explicit validate-and-retry note for the case where a connector returns conflicting competitor dates, to strengthen the feedback loop for the riskiest data step.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is information-dense and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the registry-write prohibition ('never writes memory/launch-registry directly') and the 'proposal not record' framing are repeated ~5 times across the intro, Scope guard, Skill Contract, Instructions, and Save Results sections, which could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance throughout — named connectors (producthunt.py, hn.py, gdelt.py), specific memory paths, a 2-4 window / 3-column comparison table spec, and a submit-via-registry-events.py step — with only minor gaps (Quick Start uses [product]/[quarter] placeholders). | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly sequenced 9-step process is paired with an explicit 'Done when' completion checklist serving as a validation gate; the skill only proposes writes (delegating formalization to launch-registry), so the destructive/batch cap does not apply, though no validate→fix→retry loop is spelled out. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized sections (Quick Start, Skill Contract, Data Sources, Instructions, Save Results, Reference Materials, Next Best Skill) with one-level-deep, clearly signaled references; no bundle files exist in this skill, and inline cross-references throughout make navigation slightly busy rather than a clean 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |