Content
67%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 well-structured and actionable, with concrete preflight commands, a decision matrix, and worked examples, but it spends tokens on a catalog of already-known package names, a redundant ASCII diagram, and integration notes referencing harness components that may not exist. Trimming those sections would lift both conciseness and progressive disclosure without losing instructional value.
Suggestions
Cut or drastically shrink the "Search Shortcuts by Category" catalog — Claude already knows eslint, prettier, pytest, zod, etc.; replace it with one line on how to form registry search queries, or move the catalog to a reference file.
Remove either the ASCII workflow diagram or the prose "How to Use" steps — they present the same 0–5 pipeline twice at roughly equal detail.
Drop or gate the "Integration Points" section, which depends on agents and skills (planner, iterative-retrieval) that may not exist in the active harness, mirroring the skill's own advice about honestly reporting unavailable channels.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The "Search Shortcuts by Category" section catalogs tools Claude already knows ("Linting → eslint, ruff, textlint", "Formatting → prettier, black, gofmt", "Validation → zod (TS), pydantic (Python)"), and the ASCII workflow diagram restates the same pipeline as the prose "How to Use" steps — mostly efficient, but with several trimmable sections. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete commands are given throughout — `rg --files`, `npm --version`, `gh auth status`, `ls ~/.claude/skills` — plus a decision matrix, three worked search examples, and an agent-launch template. Not a 5 because the agent prompt is a placeholder block rather than copy-paste ready, and the search steps themselves never give the exact registry search command. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear six-stage sequence (preflight, need analysis, parallel search, evaluate, decide, implement) with checkpoint-like structure in the preflight table's "If missing" fallback column and an evaluation criteria list. Not a 5: stages 1–5 of the diagram are not individually elaborated and there is no verify step after adopting a candidate; this is a research workflow, not a destructive/batch operation, so the ≤3 cap does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, so the skill is judged as a single ~180-line file with well-organized, clearly headed sections and no buried or nested references. Not a 5: reference-worthy content (the shortcuts catalog, examples, integration notes) is inlined, and the body cross-references skills that are not bundled (planner agent, iterative-retrieval skill, Context7). | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |