Content
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.
The body is a well-structured, largely actionable playbook for both bootstrap and iteration modes, with real reference templates and a delivery checklist. Its main weaknesses are an unreferenced packaging script and orphaned example-output file, plus minor redundancy between the frontmatter description and the How It Works section.
Suggestions
In Phase 4, replace "Package as a zip file" with the actual command referencing the bundled script, e.g. "python scripts/package_data_skill.py <skill-folder> <output-dir>", so the existing tooling is actually used.
Link references/example-output.md from SKILL.md (e.g., a short "See references/example-output.md for a complete generated-skill example" in Phase 3) so the shipped example is discoverable.
Remove or compress the "How It Works" section, which duplicates the two-mode summary already stated in the frontmatter description, to save tokens.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with actionable material (exact interview questions, per-dialect SQL snippets, a file-structure tree) and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows. It is not a 5 because the "How It Works" section restates the two modes already described in the frontmatter, and some "Listen for" bullet lists could be tightened without losing guidance. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Mostly concrete and executable: verbatim questions to ask, runnable sample queries ("SELECT schema_name FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA"), a target directory structure, and pointers to real templates. It falls short of 5 mainly because Phase 4 says only "Package as a zip file" without the concrete command, even though an executable packaging script (scripts/package_data_skill.py) ships in the bundle but is never referenced. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Both modes have clearly numbered, well-ordered steps (Bootstrap Phases 1-4, Iteration Steps 1-4) and a closing Quality Checklist that serves as a pre-delivery validation checkpoint, matching the score-4 anchor. Not a 5 because there is no fix-and-retry feedback loop around the checklist and validation is only end-of-process rather than at phase boundaries. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good structure with clearly signaled one-level-deep references that all exist (references/skill-template.md, references/sql-dialects.md, references/domain-template.md). Scored against the actual bundle, two shipped files are orphaned: references/example-output.md is never linked, and scripts/package_data_skill.py is never mentioned, which keeps this at the score-4 anchor ("references mostly clear; minor organization gaps") rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |