Content
57%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 delivers strong, concrete, copy-paste-ready guidance — templates, schema markup, and worked examples that make it genuinely usable — but it is a 556-line monolith that repeats its own rules across checklists and a quick-reference section and buries five full templates inline instead of splitting them into reference files. It also lacks an explicit end-to-end workflow showing how to apply the patterns to a single page. Restructuring would lift conciseness and progressive disclosure together.
Suggestions
Move the five page templates (and the schema JSON-LD blocks) into separate files under references/ (e.g., references/templates.md, references/schema.md) and keep a short overview with one-line pointers, cutting the body by more than half.
Add an explicit numbered workflow — pick template → draft sections using Feature → How → Outcome → insert triples → run per-page checklist → add schema → verify with the measurement queries — so the sequence is explicit rather than implied by document order.
Deduplicate the triple-restatement of rules across 'AEO Writing Checklist', 'Page Minimums', and 'Quick Reference' into a single checklist, and drop the decorative ASCII art and dated market stats or move them to a clearly-labeled context section.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The 556-line body restates the same rules three times (per-page checklists, 'Page Minimums', and 'Quick Reference'), includes decorative ASCII art panels, and embeds time-sensitive stats ('47% of Google queries', '$886M (2024) → $7.3B (2031)') outside any deprecated section — mostly efficient but with noticeable tightening opportunities, sitting between anchors 2 and 3. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Five copy-paste-ready page templates, complete executable JSON-LD schema markup, concrete good/bad triple examples, and a worked paragraph example make the core guidance highly actionable; the gap is the measurement section, which lists metric names with vague tracking directions ('Manual checks in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity') and no example queries or GA4 setup steps, matching anchor 4 rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | There is no explicit step-by-step sequence for applying the skill to a page (e.g., choose template → draft with Feature → How → Outcome → run checklists → add schema → validate); the underlying flow is implicit in document order, and while the checklists function as checkpoints, the sequence itself is missing, matching anchor 3. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is well-sectioned with clear headers, but it is entirely monolithic: five ~50-line page templates, the schema implementation code, and four checklist tiers that clearly belong in separate reference files are all inlined, and no bundle files (references/, scripts/, assets/) or external file pointers exist, matching the 'content that should be separate is inline' anchor. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 13 / 20 Passed |