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93%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 instruction skill: concrete policies, thresholds, and error-recovery loops for each technique, with detail correctly pushed to a real, well-matched reference file. The only deductions are minor — a few trimmable explanatory passages and measurement mechanics deferred to the reference.
Suggestions
Tighten the cache explainer in 'Cache-friendly layout': drop the sentence redefining prefix caching and keep only the operational ordering and stability rules.
Add one line to the opening 'Measure before you optimize' section pointing to the specific measurement step (e.g., 'Fill in the budget worksheet in references/optimization-techniques.md') so the diagnosis step is executable without inference.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly lean, table-driven guidance where every section carries operational rules, but a few passages restate concepts Claude already knows (e.g., 'Prefix caching reuses the computed key and value tensors for any request sharing a leading prefix with an earlier one'), fitting anchor 4's 'minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed' rather than anchor 5's every-token-earns-its-place. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully actionable: ordered compression priorities ('Compress in this order, cheapest loss first'), a three-tier masking retention policy ('Never mask / Consider masking / Always mask'), a stable-to-variable cache layout order, explicit never-compress lists, budget categories, and numeric targets ('50 to 70 percent token reduction') covering all four techniques. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The symptom-to-move decision table plus per-technique recovery loops ('re-read that list and restore anything the summary dropped', 'retry the missing one rather than the whole task', 'reject any setting where task success drops') give a clear sequence with most checkpoints, but the opening 'Measure before you optimize' step defers its concrete mechanics to the reference, leaving a minor validation gap at anchor 4 rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body keeps working guidance while recipes, worksheets, templates, and provider mechanics are split into references/optimization-techniques.md, which exists, is one level deep, and its section headings match exactly what the 'Reference file' section advertises — clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |