Content
75%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 a well-organized, token-efficient instruction skill with a clear four-step workflow, explicit non-negotiable rules, and a concrete ordered output format. It falls short of top marks mainly for lacking any worked example of the output, a dangling template reference, and the absence of an explicit validation/re-check step in the workflow.
Suggestions
Add a short worked example (a filled-in CAPABILITY/CONSTRAINTS/... block for a small sample ask) so the output format is unambiguous in practice — this would lift both actionability and workflow clarity.
Add an explicit validation step to the workflow, e.g. 'Re-check the constraint list against existing repo docs and PRODUCT.md; resolve or flag every mismatch before handing off', possibly reusing the Non-Negotiable Rules as a checklist.
Fix the dangling reference: either inline a minimal template in place of 'docs/examples/product-capability-template.md' or move a real template file into the skill bundle (e.g. references/product-capability-template.md) and reference it by that path.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and bullet-driven with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows, but a few editorial lines ("These are the things that often live only in senior-engineer memory", "The goal is not to create another planning stack. The goal is to make hidden capability constraints durable and reusable.") could be trimmed — efficient with minor over-explanation, matching anchor 4 rather than the every-token-earns-its-place 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | As an instruction-only skill it gives concrete, specific guidance: a four-step workflow with defined sub-items, an exact ordered output format template (CAPABILITY/CONSTRAINTS/IMPLEMENTATION CONTRACT/NON-GOALS/OPEN QUESTIONS/HANDOFF), and a named template path. Minor gaps keep it below 5: no worked example of a filled output, and the referenced 'docs/examples/product-capability-template.md' is not part of the skill bundle and cannot be verified here. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly sequenced four-step process (restate capability → resolve constraints → define contract → translate into execution) with the handoff decision (ready / needs architecture review / needs product clarification) and the Non-Negotiable Rules acting as guardrail checkpoints. Below 5 because there is no explicit validation or feedback step (e.g., re-checking the plan against existing repo constraints); above 3 because the sequence and checkpoints are mostly explicit. The skill is neither destructive nor batch, so the workflow cap does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A well-sectioned, self-contained body with one clearly signaled one-level reference (the capability template path); the names under 'Translate into execution' (project-flow-ops, tdd-workflow, etc.) are cross-references to other skills, not nested documents. Minor gap: the referenced template file does not exist in the skill directory, a dangling path — good structure with minor organization gaps, matching anchor 4. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |