Content
63%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 body delivers strong, executable, WordPress-7.0-specific guidance with real validation gates, and its code examples are the best part. Its weaknesses are the padded generic phase bullets that add tokens without information, and the monolithic single-file structure — dense compliance details and full code recipes should live in reference files.
Suggestions
Trim or delete the generic phase Actions lists ("Implement singleton pattern", "Set up dependency injection") and the vague "WordPress 7.0 Considerations" bullets; keep only guidance Claude would not already know.
Move the phpcs/Plugin Check compliance details and the long AI Connector / Abilities / block registration examples into references/ files (e.g., references/plugin-check.md, references/abilities-api.md) and link them one level deep from SKILL.md.
Add an explicit feedback loop around validation, e.g., "Run `wp plugin check`, fix reported sniffs, re-run until 0 errors and 0 warnings before submission", and complete the $where whitelist example so it is copy-paste ready.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~500-line body mixes genuinely non-obvious material ($wpdb %i placeholders, phpcs annotation placement, PCP audit behavior) with filler that assumes Claude's intelligence: generic phase bullets like "Implement singleton pattern", "Set up dependency injection", and vague 7.0 considerations like "Prepare for iframed editor compatibility", "Design for collaboration-aware data flows". Mostly efficient but padded in the phase scaffolding, matching anchor 3 rather than 4. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Mostly executable, copy-paste-ready guidance: the wp_ai_client_prompt chain, full Abilities registration with input/output schemas, register_block_type render callback, register_post_meta with sanitize_callback, and `wp plugin check <plugin-slug>`. Not anchor 5 because of minor gaps: the DataViews example references an undefined `handleViewChange` and `/* records */` placeholder, and the `$where` whitelist construction is described but never shown. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Nine clearly sequenced phases (setup → architecture → hooks → admin → database → REST → security → 7.0 features → testing) closing with hard validation checkpoints: "All code must pass with 0 errors and 0 warnings", the Quality Gates and Compatibility checklists, and the warning that WordPress.org ignores local exclude-patterns. Not anchor 5 because there is no explicit fix-and-re-run feedback loop around the PCP/test gates, leaving checkpoint recovery implicit. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist (no references/, scripts/, or assets/), so everything — the full phpcs/PCP compliance details, three long code examples, and the DataViews snippet — is inlined in one 500-line SKILL.md. Section headers give decent structure, but reference-grade material that clearly belongs in separate files is inline, matching anchor 3 rather than 2 (organization is present) or 4 (no content is actually split out). | 3 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |