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73%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.
A well-structured, highly actionable repair protocol with excellent workflow sequencing, validation, and feedback loops. Its main weakness is redundancy across three reinforcement sections that inflates length without adding new guidance.
Suggestions
Consolidate the Red Flags, Common Rationalizations, and Anti-Patterns sections — they restate the same anti-skip-phase guidance — into a single concise table to recover token budget.
Make remaining abstract TRACE steps executable (e.g., give the grep/import-trace commands inline instead of "trace it to its source").
Trim the repeated output-format templates (feature manifest, dependency map, diagnosis report) to minimal required fields rather than full filled-in examples.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The phase protocol is mostly efficient and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the Red Flags, Common Rationalizations, and Anti-Patterns sections heavily restate the same "don't skip phases / verify fully" message and could be merged. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete commands (e.g. `git log --oneline -20 -- <feature-path>`, grep patterns for env vars) and structured output templates (feature manifest, dependency map, diagnosis report), though some steps like "trace it to its source" stay abstract. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Five phases are explicitly sequenced (SCOPE→TRACE→DIAGNOSE→FIX→VERIFY) with validation checkpoints (Iron Law, run tests after each fix), feedback loops (FIX→DIAGNOSE, 3-strike escalation), and checklists for diagnosis. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized single file with clear sections and a Quick Reference table; no external references are needed, but at ~310 lines it is a fairly long monolith with redundant reinforcement sections that could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |