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71%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, explicit guardrails, and clean one-level reference navigation. Its main weakness is repetition: the beat list and claims-routing boilerplate recur across several sections and could be consolidated.
Suggestions
State the five-beat arc and the '[needs source] → claims.ndjson via operation: propose to registry-events.py' routing once in the Skill Contract, then reference them from Instructions and Save Results instead of restating verbatim.
Add a short validate→fix→retry loop after the step 7 self-check (e.g., if a beat contradicts canon or the empty-chair test fails, name which upstream step to revisit) to close the feedback-loop gap.
Show a one-line invocation example for a connector script (e.g., tavily.py) so the Data Sources guidance is copy-paste ready rather than referenced.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and free of condescending concept explanations, but the five-beat list and the claims-routing boilerplate ('[needs source]' → claims.ndjson via authorized operation: propose to registry-events.py) are restated verbatim across Scope guard, Skill Contract, Instructions, and Save Results, so it could be tightened by stating once and referencing. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete guidance throughout — specific memory paths (memory/narrative/strategic-narrative-designer/, memory/events/claims.ndjson), named connector scripts (tavily.py, gdelt.py, wayback.py), a labeling scheme (Measured/User-provided/[needs source]/proxy/Estimated), and a 7-step process — but the actual invocation of registry-events.py and the connectors is referenced rather than shown. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 7-step sequence with real checkpoints (step 1 NEEDS_INPUT stop, step 7 self-check/empty-chair test, a 'Done when' gate, and Termination guardrails with visited-set/max-depth:3/ambiguity stop), though the validate→fix→retry feedback loop is less explicit than the checkpoints themselves. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview that points to detailed materials one level deep and clearly signaled — a Reference Materials section lists tale-benchmark.md, skill-contract.md, CONNECTORS.md, SECURITY.md and cross-skill SKILL.md links each with descriptive prose, with no nested reference chains. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |