Conciseness

Lean and efficient throughout — dense imperative guidance ('Sequence riskiest-unknown-first so option value stays high', 'Inconclusive is not a pass') with zero padding and no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. Every token earns its place, matching the 5 anchor.

Actionability

Mostly executable guidance with concrete specifics ('Open a todolist whose first item is to read the Principles section of the **poteto-mode** skill', 'one canonical TSV with a row per decision and per unit', verdict labels 'VERIFIED, NOT VERIFIED, or INCONCLUSIVE'), but lacks worked examples — no sample falsifiable predicate or example TSV row — and some directives remain abstract ('Scales rigor to the task'). This sits between the fully-specified 5 and the incomplete 3.

Workflow Clarity

Clear Start → Phase A–E sequence with explicit validation checkpoints (falsifiable predicate defined in Phase A and checked 'on the real product' in Phase E, per-unit verification in Phase C) and error-recovery feedback loops ('If a worker games the gate, reset and harden the contract... keep it if it advanced, revert it if it didn't'). Matches the 5 anchor: sequence, explicit validation, and feedback loops for error recovery.

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist and the body is 49 lines with clean section headers (## Start, ## Phase A–E) and clearly signaled one-level references to companion skills. Per the rubric's scoring note, an under-50-line skill with no need for external references scores 5 with well-organized sections.

Specificity

Lists several concrete actions ('Design an auditable playbook', 'runs a hypothesis loop', 'logs decisions via show-me-your-work'), but 'Scales rigor to the task' is vague and coverage of the full workflow (framing, decomposition, verification) has minor gaps — a 4, not 5, and well above the 1-2-action level of a 3.

Completeness

Clearly answers both questions: the 'what' ('Design an auditable playbook... scales rigor, runs a hypothesis loop, and logs decisions') and an explicit 'when' with concrete trigger phrases ('Use for /figure-it-out, "figure it out", a large migration, or when no narrower playbook applies').

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases users would say ('figure it out', 'a large migration', '/figure-it-out') plus an explicit fallback trigger, but misses common synonyms a user might naturally use like 'big refactor', 'risky change', or 'multi-part change' — good coverage with a few natural terms missing.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The description explicitly carves out a fallback niche ('when no narrower one fits', 'when no narrower playbook applies') with distinct triggers, minimizing overlap with narrower skills that handle the single-unit versions of these tasks.