Content
85%Weight 40%Scale 1-3Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A strong, actionable instruction skill with explicit gates and validation for a consequential legal operation. The only weakness is conciseness: the terse top-of-file summary largely restates the detailed sections, adding redundant tokens.
Suggestions
Collapse the opening six-line numbered summary into a one-line pointer to the detailed sections below (or drop it) — its content is fully covered in '## The close' and '## Writing', so the duplication costs tokens without adding guidance.
If the summary is retained as a TL;DR, mark it explicitly as such and ensure the detailed sections hold the only normative field/path templates so there is a single source of truth.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes legal competence (no explanations of what matters or settlements are), but the opening six-line numbered summary duplicates the expanded sections below (resolution types, exposure, lessons, history append, _log.yaml update all appear twice), so not every token earns its place — a score-2 "mostly efficient but could be tightened" rather than score-3 lean. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Fully concrete and copy-paste ready: exact YAML field structure (status/closed/outcome/final_cost/last_updated), a complete history.md markdown template, exact file paths, and a resolution-type enum — no pseudocode or missing key details, matching the score-3 anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear sequence with explicit checkpoints for a consequential operation: a conflicts gate (refuse if the slug is absent from _log.yaml), a non-lawyer role gate requiring an explicit yes before writing, and a Confirm step showing the user the close entry and yaml changes before writing — meeting the score-3 anchor for explicit validation and feedback loops. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Single well-organized file with clear sections (Purpose, Load context, Input, The close, Writing, Confirm, What this skill does not do), one one-level signaled pointer (CLAUDE.md "Who's using this"), and no nested references or misplaced inline content; nothing demands splitting. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |