Conciseness

The body is dense and lean with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows — every section adds skill-specific rules (veto IDs, aggregation policy, persistence contract). It falls short of 5 because the runtime reads are listed twice ('### Runtime Reads' then restated in prose under '### Runtime and Setup', with 'tale-benchmark.md' and 'auditor-runbook.md' appearing three times via '## Reference Materials') and those redundancies could be trimmed.

Actionability

Concrete, specific guidance dominates: exact item ranges ('score T1–T10', 'A1–A10 and L1–L10', 'E1–E10'), named vetoes ('TALE-T1', 'TALE-A1', 'TALE-L1', 'TALE-E1'), an explicit aggregation rule ('any BLOCK → block; otherwise any UNDECIDED → undecided...'), a persistence path template, and a shell env resolution expression. It stops short of 5 because the deterministic scorer invocation and `validate-audit-artifact.py` are named but their executable paths/commands are not given in this bundle, deferring to files not present here.

Workflow Clarity

The sequence is coherent — trigger conditions, quick start, runtime setup with a fail-closed branch ('If unavailable... return score_state: NOT_SCORED'), profile procedures, vetoes, report format, '## Validation Checkpoints', and a persistence step with validate → single Write → revalidate feedback loop. It does not reach 5 because the mid-document numbered sections (§2, §3, §5 with no §1/§4) suggest displaced structure, and key execution details live in external runbook files rather than inline checkpoints.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is an appropriately sized overview pointing to detailed materials, and the one bundled reference (references/auditor-runtime.md, 571 lines, self-contained) is one level deep and explicitly designated as the standalone fallback ('Standalone installs use bundled immutable references/auditor-runtime.md'). It stays at 4 rather than 5 because five of six referenced files ('../../../references/auditor-runbook.md', 'scoring-semantics.md', 'tale-benchmark.md', 'runtime-invocation.md', 'measurement-protocol.md') resolve only in a full plugin install and are absent from this bundle, and the reference listings are duplicated across three sections.

Specificity

The description lists several concrete actions — 'runs separate typed TALE truth, system, or effectiveness profiles', 'Checks differentiation, canon, landing consistency, and evidence integrity' — with only minor gaps in coverage. It falls short of the 5 anchor because the actions remain audit-domain abstractions rather than fully enumerated concrete operations, but clearly exceeds the 3 anchor's '1-2 concrete actions'.

Completeness

It explicitly answers both questions with concrete trigger phrases: 'what' via 'runs separate typed TALE truth, system, or effectiveness profiles... Checks differentiation, canon, landing consistency, and evidence integrity' and 'when' via the opening 'Use when the user asks to...'. This matches the anchor-5 example pattern ('Extract text... Use when working with...') exactly; anchor 4 would require the 'when' to be less explicit.

Trigger Term Quality

It includes natural user phrases like '"audit our brand narrative"' and '"is this message on-canon"' plus negative triggers ('Not for launch readiness', 'not for social operations'). A few natural terms users might say are missing (e.g., 'messaging', 'positioning', 'brand story'), so it matches anchor 4 rather than the comprehensive synonym coverage of anchor 5, but is well above the sparse keyword coverage of anchor 3.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It carves out a clear niche with explicit negative scoping — 'Not for launch readiness — use launch-readiness-auditor; not for social operations — use social-quality-auditor' — minimizing conflict risk. This is stronger than anchor 4's 'minor overlap risk with closely related skills' because wrong-skill triggers are actively redirected.