Content
56%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 rich in concrete, executable hook-development guidance with a solid validated implementation workflow, but it is roughly twice as long as it needs to be due to redundant restatements (duplicate plugin-format section, summary table, DO/DON'T list) and includes a contradictory example plus dead references to a missing examples/ directory. Tightening and moving the per-event API detail into the existing references/ files would substantially improve it.
Suggestions
Remove the duplicated content: delete or merge the 'Plugin Hook Configuration' section (it repeats and contradicts the wrapper-format rule from 'Plugin hooks.json Format'), and drop either the per-event 'Hook Events' sections or the 'Quick Reference' summary table and DO/DON'T lists that restate them.
Move the event-by-event API detail (per-event config, output, and input formats) into a file under references/ and keep only the overview, format distinction, and a quick-start example in SKILL.md, relying on the existing references/patterns.md and references/advanced.md for depth.
Fix the dead references: either add the promised examples/ directory (validate-write.sh, validate-bash.sh, load-context.sh) or update the citations in the SessionStart and Path Safety sections to point at real bundle paths.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~710-line body duplicates itself: the 'Plugin Hook Configuration' section restates (and contradicts) the earlier 'Plugin hooks.json Format' wrapper rule, and the 'Quick Reference' events table plus 'Best Practices' DO/DON'T lists restate the per-event sections and scattered best-practice bullets. Several padded sections ('Benefits:', 'Use for:') add little; this matches 'noticeably verbose; several unnecessary explanations or padded sections' rather than the mostly-efficient anchor 3. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is largely copy-paste ready — full hooks.json configs, a bash validation script with `set -euo pipefail` and jq field extraction, and test commands like `echo '{"tool_name": "Write", ...}' | bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/validate.sh`. Not a 5 because the second plugin-format example is inconsistent with the documented wrapper format, and referenced working examples ('examples/validate-write.sh', 'examples/load-context.sh') do not exist in the bundle. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 'Implementation Workflow' gives a clear 9-step sequence with explicit checkpoints ('Validate configuration with scripts/validate-hook-schema.sh', 'Test hooks with scripts/test-hook.sh', 'Test in Claude Code with claude --debug'). It falls short of anchor 5 because there is no explicit error-recovery loop (what to do when validation fails or a hook misbehaves beyond 'look for' debug logs). | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | References are one level deep and real for `references/patterns.md`, `references/migration.md`, `references/advanced.md` and the `scripts/` utilities, but the body also cites a nonexistent `examples/` directory twice, and event-by-event API detail (full config/output/input formats per event) is inlined in SKILL.md where it belongs in a reference file. This sits between anchor 3 ('content that should be separate is inline', 'references present but not clearly signaled' — here references are signaled but one target is missing) and anchor 4. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 13 / 20 Passed |