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80%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.
An efficient, well-structured instruction-only principle skill: concise, actionable directives with clear applicability boundaries and no bundle-file overhead. The main gap is the absence of a verification step before the destructive delete-the-old-API action, which caps workflow clarity.
Suggestions
Add a verification checkpoint before deletion, e.g., 'Before deleting the old API, grep the codebase for remaining references (e.g., `rg "old_api_name"`) and confirm zero hits.'
Add a post-migration validation step such as 'Run the full test suite after migration; the tests should now assert the new contract.'
Give one concrete hint for the caller-inventory step (e.g., search for call sites of the old API's public symbols) to make the first step of the sequence executable rather than implied.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The 24-line body is lean and assumes Claude's competence: terse rule bullets, explicit applicability conditions, and a single rationale line — no explanations of concepts Claude already knows and no padding to trim, matching the anchor-5 example. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and directive ("Inventory callers, migrate them, and delete the old API immediately"; "Update tests to assert the new contract, and delete tests that only protect pre-refactor implementation details"), but minor gaps remain — no concrete technique for inventorying callers (e.g., grep for call sites) and no example of what a time-boxed adapter looks like, so it falls short of anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A rough sequence exists (inventory callers → migrate → delete old API, update tests), but there is no validation checkpoint such as verifying zero remaining references to the old API or running the test suite before deletion. Migrating all callers is a batch operation and deleting an API is destructive, so per the rubric cap a destructive/batch skill without validation cannot score above 3. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is under 50 lines, needs no external references (none exist in the bundle), and is well-organized into clearly labeled sections (Rule, When this applies) — the rubric's simple-skill exception for a 5 applies. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |