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 is actionable and the end-to-end workflow is well sequenced with a dry-run checkpoint on the main batch operation, but it is verbose for its length — duplicating the command list and carrying two historical comparison tables — and keeps reference material inline rather than progressively disclosing it to bundle files.
Suggestions
Remove the duplicate command listing: keep either the Quick Start commented examples or the Commands table, not both.
Collapse the two "What's New" version tables into a single concise changelog or move them to a references/CHANGELOG.md and link to it.
Add a short "Bundle files" / references section that one-level-deep links to scripts/instinct-cli.py, scripts/migrate-homunculus.sh, and the observe.sh hook instead of burying those paths in prose.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~370-line body is mostly efficient but carries padded sections: two historical version-comparison tables (v2.1 vs v2.0 and v2 vs v1), the instinct commands listed twice (Quick Start comments and the Commands table), and a "Why Hooks vs Skills" rationale section that explains concepts rather than instructs. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance is provided throughout — slash commands with usage, a settings.json hook block, mkdir setup, and `python3 instinct-cli.py promote [--dry-run]` invocations — with only minor gaps (the instinct-cli.py subcommand surface is not exhaustively enumerated). | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The "How It Works" diagram and numbered Quick Start sequence the multi-stage pipeline clearly, and the destructive/batch promote operation has a `--dry-run` validation checkpoint; a couple of operations (e.g. the one-time migrate script) lack an explicit post-run verify step, leaving minor validation gaps. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure is reasonable, but reference-style content (two version tables, the scope-decision guide, confidence-scoring reference) is inlined in SKILL.md rather than split out, and pointers to the real bundle scripts (instinct-cli.py, migrate-homunculus.sh, observe.sh) are embedded in prose instead of a clearly signaled one-level-deep reference section. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |