Content
71%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-structured, actionably-specified instruction skill with excellent progressive disclosure via real reference modules and a clear sequenced workflow. Its main liability is structural redundancy — the fabrication/verification constraints are repeated across many sections, inflating token cost without adding guidance value.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated anti-fabrication and DOI/verification rules into a single authoritative 'Hard Rules' section and reference it once from Step 5 and the formatting standards instead of restating it five more times.
Add an explicit feedback loop to the verification step (e.g., 'if a candidate record cannot be verified, retry the lookup once; if still unverified, label DOI not available / not verified and continue') to strengthen the batch-collection validation path.
Trim or merge 'What This Skill Should Not Do' and 'Quality Standard' with the existing 'Hard Rules' and 'This skill must / must never' lists, since they restate the same constraints in different wording.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body assumes Claude's intelligence (no concept over-explanation), but the anti-fabrication/verification rules are restated roughly six times across 'This skill must never', Step 5's Hard verification rule, Required Formatting Standards, Hard Rules, and 'What This Skill Should Not Do', which is notable redundancy that could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, specific guidance is present throughout — mandatory output sections A–J with per-section requirements, an explicit minimum record field format, defined priority tiers, and hard verification rules — with the bulk of executable detail correctly delegated to reference modules rather than inlined. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly ordered 7-step workflow with validation at entry (input validation redirect-and-stop) and at record output (the hard verification rule for links/DOIs); the only gap is an explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loop, since failures are instructed to be reported rather than retried. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md acts as a clear overview pointing to nine one-level-deep, well-labeled reference modules, all of which exist as real files; navigation is easy and content is appropriately split with no nested reference chains. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |