Content
85%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 highly actionable and well-structured, with a clear three-step workflow, a validation checklist, worked examples, an anti-patterns table, and a properly signaled one-level-deep reference. Its main weakness is conciseness: the Philosophy section and some introductory prose pad the skill with concepts Claude already knows.
Suggestions
Remove or condense the Philosophy section; the Lacan/Kahneman/Dialogical Self references do not change how Claude executes the loop.
Trim the 'What This Does' introductory prose that explains inner dialogue as a concept, since Claude can infer it from the process steps.
Consider moving the longer worked examples into references/examples.md, keeping one short illustrative example inline, to reduce token cost on every invocation.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The core process, Mirror Checklist, examples, anti-patterns table, and token-cost table are efficient, but the Philosophy section (Lacan/Kahneman/Dialogical Self) and introductory conceptual prose ('Humans have inner dialogue...') restate ideas Claude already knows and could be trimmed. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete executable guidance for an instruction-only skill: a specific Mirror Checklist, direct voice examples ('You're reciting a script. Stop.'), an output-format template, and three fully worked Self/Mirror/Conscious examples covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The three-step Self -> Mirror -> Conscious Response sequence is clearly ordered, with an explicit Mirror Checklist serving as the validation checkpoint and a reflect-then-revise feedback loop, plus show/quiet-mode transition guidance. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clear overview with well-organized sections, and programmatic/API detail is split into a single one-level-deep reference (references/api-integration.md) that is explicitly signaled in the Integration Notes; the referenced file exists. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |