Content
81%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 highly actionable, well-sequenced methodology with exemplary concrete examples and a complete output template. Its main weakness is token efficiency: the motivational framing sections pad the skill without adding instructions Claude needs.
Suggestions
Trim 'Why Most Post-Mortems Fail' to 2-3 lines — the blame/whitewash contrast is useful framing but the current three paragraphs repeat the point the framework steps already enforce.
Condense 'The Tone of Good Post-Mortems' into a single example pair (blame vs. understanding sentence) and fold it into the framework or output-format section, since its guidance duplicates the blameless principles stated earlier.
If the skill grows, move the worked examples (5-Whys walkthrough, good/bad action items) into a references/ file and keep SKILL.md as the framework overview.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The framework steps earn their tokens, but the 'Why Most Post-Mortems Fail' and 'The Tone of Good Post-Mortems' sections are motivational/editorial and restate the blamelessness point multiple times — more than the 'minor instances of over-explanation' that would justify a 4. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully concrete: a worked good-vs-bad 5-Whys example, specific action items with named owners and dates ('Ravi owns rewriting qualification criteria by March 15...'), and a copy-paste-ready output format template including the change-register table. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Seven clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation checkpoints — the root-cause test ('Could you prevent recurrence with a specific, concrete change?'), per-action verification requirements, and a dedicated Step 7 verification date. This is an analytic rather than destructive/batch skill, so no cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A single self-contained file with well-organized sections, clear headers, and the output template under its own heading; at ~190 lines it exceeds the under-50-lines simple-skill exception, and the worked examples could eventually move to a reference file, leaving minor organization gaps rather than a fully clean split. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |