Content
77%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-engineered operating manual: executable commands, a clearly sequenced agent protocol with strong validation and feedback loops, and concrete escalation/self-improvement rules. Its main structural weakness is disclosure — two reference files ship in the bundle but are never linked from the body, while inlined domain detail and dangling references (convert.sh, undefined /ar:* commands) hurt navigation and actionability.
Suggestions
Link references/experiment-domains.md from the Domains section and references/program-template.md from the 'If program.md Already Exists' section, and slim the inlined Domains table to a one-line pointer so the detail lives in the reference file.
Fix dangling references: either add scripts/convert.sh and the /ar:* command definitions to the bundle, or remove them from SKILL.md so the agent isn't pointed at files that don't exist.
Trim agent-irrelevant sections (Installation, Related Skills, subscription-cost bullets, and the sample dashboard output) to reclaim context-window tokens without losing operational guidance.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and imperative — tables for domains, evaluators, and results.tsv columns; no re-teaching of concepts Claude already knows. Minor padding could be trimmed: the tagline, subscription-cost bullets, sample dashboard output, and the Installation/Related Skills sections, which don't guide the agent's loop. Efficient with minor over-explanation — anchor 4, not 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is mostly copy-paste executable: full setup commands with every flag, 'python scripts/run_experiment.py --experiment engineering/api-speed --single', and explicit git commands per iteration. Two gaps keep it from 5: the five '/ar:*' slash commands are listed but no command definitions exist in the bundle, and 'scripts/convert.sh' is referenced but absent from scripts/. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear 'Before Starting' and 'Each Iteration' sequences with explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops: dry-run before starting, 'Test it before starting the loop', timeout kill at 2.5× budget, crash→fix→re-run, 5-consecutive-crash pause-and-alert, and 20-run strategy escalation. The destructive git reset is script-managed with comparisons validated before revert — matches anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The bundle ships references/experiment-domains.md and references/program-template.md, but the body never links or signals either — the Domains table is inlined in SKILL.md instead (duplicating the reference file's role), and program.md guidance never points to the template. Combined with the dangling convert.sh reference, this fits anchor 3 ('references present but not clearly signaled; content that should be separate is inline') better than 4. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |