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52%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.
The skill's core process is well-designed — a concrete per-function checklist, numeric quality thresholds, clear phase sequencing, and an anti-rationalization table — but the document is padded with threefold-repeated non-goals and restated rules, and its progressive-disclosure design is broken because every referenced satellite file is missing from the bundle. Fixing the missing files and cutting the repetition would lift it substantially.
Suggestions
Ship the referenced files (FUNCTION_MICRO_ANALYSIS_EXAMPLE.md, OUTPUT_REQUIREMENTS.md, COMPLETENESS_CHECKLIST.md) in a references/ directory, or inline their essential content — especially the output format that section 5.4 declares Claude MUST follow, and fix section 1's dangling 'see Example: Function Micro-Analysis below' pointer.
Deduplicate the body: merge section 1 and section 3 (identical bullet lists), and collapse 'Do not use for', section 9, and section 10 into a single non-goals statement — this would cut roughly a third of the document.
Replace the vague Phase 2 to Phase 3 transition ('After sufficient micro-analysis') with a concrete exit criterion, e.g. 'proceed to Phase 3 once every externally-reachable function has completed the 5.5 checklist'.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Noticeably verbose through redundancy: section 1 (Purpose) and section 3 (How This Skill Behaves) repeat the same bullets ('Apply First Principles, 5 Whys, and 5 Hows', ultra-granular analysis, mental model); the non-goal list appears three times ('Do not use for', section 9 'Relationship to Other Phases', section 10 'Non-Goals'); and section 5.4's 'Key requirements' restate section 5.1's checklist. Not 3 because several sections add no new information; not 1 because nothing explains concepts Claude already knows. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is concrete and specific: a per-function microstructure checklist (Purpose, Inputs & Assumptions, Outputs & Effects, block-by-block with What/Why/Assumptions/Invariants), numeric quality thresholds ('Minimum 3 invariants per function', 'At least 3 combined 5 Whys/5 Hows applications'), and a rationalization table with concrete required actions. Not 5 because no worked example is shown inline and terms like 'First Principles at micro scale' are never demonstrated. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 1 (Orientation), 2 (Per-Function Analysis), and 3 (Global Understanding) are clearly sequenced, with an explicit completeness checklist (5.5) before concluding a function and a contradiction feedback loop ('Earlier I thought X; now Y'). Not 5 because the Phase 2 to Phase 3 transition is vague ('After sufficient micro-analysis'), the referenced COMPLETENESS_CHECKLIST.md is unavailable, and section 1's 'see Example: Function Micro-Analysis below' points to an example that is not below. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body signals three satellite files (FUNCTION_MICRO_ANALYSIS_EXAMPLE.md, OUTPUT_REQUIREMENTS.md, COMPLETENESS_CHECKLIST.md) but the bundle contains no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories — none of the referenced files exist. Section 5.4 mandates output 'following the format defined in OUTPUT_REQUIREMENTS.md', which is unavailable, and section 1's inline example pointer dangles, so navigation is broken despite good signaling. Not 3 because clearly-signaled references that cannot be opened are worse than weakly-signaled ones that work. | 2 / 5 |
Total | 12 / 20 Passed |