Content
87%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.
An exemplary lean, fully actionable skill body — concrete paths, templates, and commands with zero padding. The one real gap is validation: the batch mc mirror push and the LRU history eviction proceed without any verification checkpoints.
Suggestions
Add a verification step after the mc mirror push (e.g. check the command's exit status or list the remote prefix to confirm the latest progress file landed) before considering an update durable.
Add a checkpoint to the LRU eviction rule (e.g. confirm {task-id}.json exists in history-tasks/ before removing the entry from recent_tasks) so the overflow move cannot silently lose history.
In the resume flow, add a fallback checkpoint when task-history.json or the task_dir is missing (e.g. how to locate the task directory from ~/shared/tasks/) instead of only the single history-tasks lookup.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence: no concept explanations, no padding, and every line (paths, format template, command, JSON example, rules) is operational — matching 'every token earns its place'. It is not below 5 since nothing explains what Claude already knows. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete file paths (~/shared/tasks/{task-id}/progress/YYYY-MM-DD.md), a copy-paste-ready append format, a complete mc mirror command with flags and env var, a full JSON example, and a named sync command (hermes-sync) cover the common cases. Not 4 because there is no pseudocode or vague step anywhere. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The resume flow is a clear 5-step latest-first sequence, but validation checkpoints are absent throughout: the batch/destructive 'mc mirror --overwrite' push has no success verification, and the LRU eviction to history-tasks has no post-move check. Per the rubric's cap, a workflow involving batch operations without validation cannot score above 3; it is not 2 because the sequence itself is coherent and well-defined. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | There are no bundle files and none are needed; the ~65-line body is organized into four tight sections (Gotchas, Progress Log, Task History, Resume Flow) with nothing that belongs in a separate file, fitting the simple-skill exception. Not 4 because organization is clean and navigation is trivial. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |