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75%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, actionable decision framework that stays lean and uses clear sequencing with built-in self-checks. Its main gap is the absence of a fully worked example tying the steps together.
Suggestions
Add one concise worked example (e.g. a layoff decision) walking through Steps 1-6 to show the framework applied end-to-end.
Trim the repeated motivational taglines (e.g. "Most hard decisions are late decisions" appears in spirit twice) to tighten the body.
Verify the `../executive-mentor/references/hard_things.md` reference resolves, or move the co-founder/layoff detail into a local reference file under ./references/.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Largely lean and punchy with bullets and bolded takeaways that assume Claude's competence; a few aphoristic taglines and light repetition between the "Why Hard" section and the framework could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, specific guidance — the 10/10/10 questions, Andy Grove test, a fill-in stakeholder table, pre-announcement exercise, and decision-specific key-question lists — but lacks a fully worked end-to-end example applying the framework to one case. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The six steps are clearly sequenced, and the Pre-Announcement Test and Avoiding-It Test act as self-check gates; it stops short of explicit validate-then-retry feedback loops, so it sits just below a 5. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized single file with clear section headers and one-level-deep, clearly signaled external references (e.g. `../executive-mentor/references/hard_things.md`); the decision-specific frameworks could arguably live in separate files but are reasonably placed inline. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |