Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient — tables for checks and configuration, compact worked examples with exit codes — but the CI-pipeline analogy, the 'ship and forget' narrative in Why, and the 'Quality' section recounting '4 rounds of automated code review... 9 real bugs found and fixed' are meta-padding that could be trimmed. This matches 'efficient with minor instances of over-explanation' rather than the lean 'every token earns its place' anchor.

Actionability

Install commands, the full settings.json hook config, a configuration table with defaults, and worked examples with exit codes and stderr messages are concrete and executable. However, the central artifact — 'skills/delivery-gate/hooks/quality-gate.py' — is not present in the skill bundle (no scripts/ directory), so the core install step cannot be executed from the skill alone.

Workflow Clarity

The install-then-configure sequence is concrete and unambiguous, and the Examples section documents outcomes (exit 0 vs exit 2 with the exact stderr text) for allowed and blocked paths. The gap is validation: there is no post-install step to verify the hook actually fires, and no troubleshooting for a silently non-firing hook or missing Python.

Progressive Disclosure

The document is well-structured with clear sections, a flat layout, and one-level-deep See Also links. But the single substantive file reference, 'cp skills/delivery-gate/hooks/quality-gate.py', points outside the skill and does not resolve to any file in the bundle, so navigation to the implementation is broken — a minor organization gap rather than the fully clear reference structure of the top anchor.

Specificity

The description names multiple concrete actions with their mechanisms — 'blocks Claude from finishing until quality checks pass', 'Detects rationalization patterns (surface text heuristics)', 'stale learning logs (filesystem mtime)', and 'low disk space' — covering all three of the hook's checks comprehensively. Third-person voice throughout, so no voice penalty applies.

Completeness

The 'what' is explicit (a Stop hook with three named checks) and the 'when' is an explicit trigger clause: 'Use when Claude should be mechanically blocked from declaring work finished before quality checks and learning capture actually pass.' Both are answered clearly with a concrete condition, matching the top anchor rather than the 'when could be more explicit' anchor at 4.

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms like 'quality checks pass', 'declaring work finished', 'learning capture', and 'low disk space' are phrases users would plausibly say, giving good coverage. It misses common synonyms and casual variations ('done', 'wrap up', 'session hygiene'), so it falls short of the comprehensive-synonym anchor at 5.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Complements self-audit by mechanically enforcing learning capture habits' carves out a clear niche (deterministic mtime/regex/disk checks) and explicitly distinguishes it from the reasoning-quality gate sibling. Conflict risk with other skills is minimal because the trigger is specific to mechanical blocking.