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 tightly written orchestration playbook: sequenced steps, validation checkpoints with a real feedback loop, and concrete templates/tables throughout. Its main limitations are the deferred ticket template (forcing trust in an external file for the core output format) and a couple of illustrative blocks that could be trimmed or moved to a reference file.
Suggestions
Inline a minimal but complete 04-tickets.yaml example (one ticket with id, owner_eligibility, depends_on/blocks, acceptance with verifiers, estimate) instead of only fragments, so the core output format is self-contained rather than deferred to docs/specs/templates/04-tickets-template.yaml.
Move the owner-eligibility matrix and the notes_for_downstream example into a reference file (e.g. references/ticket-rules.md) and keep SKILL.md as a lean overview with clearly signaled links, trimming the extended YAML illustrations.
Add a short conflict-resolution step for when two sub-architects' 03-arch-*.md outputs disagree (beyond the NEW-vs-EXTEND escalation), so Step 4's synthesis has explicit guidance for reconciling divergent designs.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and operational — decision tables, spawn prompts, rules, and a checklist with essentially no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. Minor trimming opportunities remain (e.g. the extended notes_for_downstream example and the illustrative dependency YAML block are longer than needed to convey the format), matching the score-4 anchor 'efficient; minor instances that could be trimmed' rather than the every-token-earns-its-place level of 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is mostly executable: copy-paste Agent prompts with explicit subagent types, a surface decision table, concrete YAML fragments for dependencies/acceptance criteria/handoff notes, and a closing output script. It falls short of 5 because the full ticket format is deferred to an external template ('Seguir template docs/specs/templates/04-tickets-template.yaml') and only fragments of the ticket schema are shown inline — minor gaps, not the pseudocode-level gaps of 3. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation: Step 3 is a cross-module audit with an escalation rule (feedback loop to /pm), Step 5 is a pre-close checklist (owner eligibility, DAG check, ≥2 verifiable acceptance criteria, >8h split alert), and Step 6 defines the handoff and checkpoint update. This matches the score-5 anchor: clear sequence, explicit validation steps, feedback loops, and a checklist. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The single-file bundle (~180 lines) is well organized with clear sections, and every external reference is an exact project path (templates, anti-duplication rules, story YAML). Score 4 rather than 5 because the simple-skill exception (<50 lines) does not apply and some content — the owner-eligibility matrix, acceptance-criteria schema, and handoff-note examples — could be split into a reference file to keep SKILL.md a leaner overview; it is clearly above the inline-heavy disorganization of 3. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |