Conciseness

The body is dominated by value-adding material (mode syntax, SEV table, output templates), but the ~25-line ASCII box diagram restates what the mode list and phase headers already convey, and some Tips ("No speculation", blameless framing) pad mildly. This matches the efficient-with-minor-trimmable-excess anchor rather than the lean every-token-earns-its-place anchor.

Actionability

Concrete mode commands ("/incident-response new [description]"), a severity table with explicit criteria and response times, and complete copy-paste-ready markdown templates for both outputs (status update and postmortem with 5-whys and action-item tables). For an instruction-only skill this is fully executable guidance covering the common cases.

Workflow Clarity

The four phases (TRIAGE → COMMUNICATE → MITIGATE → POSTMORTEM) are clearly sequenced with per-phase checklist items, a "Confirm resolution" checkpoint, and an ambiguity fallback ("If no mode is specified, ask what phase the incident is in"). It falls short of the top anchor because explicit validation checkpoints are missing (e.g., confirm severity with the user before paging, verify timeline completeness before writing the postmortem), though no destructive/batch cap applies.

Progressive Disclosure

A well-sectioned single-file skill with clear headers and one clearly signaled, one-level-deep external reference ([CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)), though that path does not resolve in this environment. The ~70 lines of output templates could arguably live in a separate reference file, leaving minor organization gaps rather than the clean split-and-navigate structure of the top anchor.

Specificity

"Run an incident response workflow — triage, communicate, and write postmortem" lists several concrete actions (triage, communicate, write postmortem), matching the anchor for several specific actions with minor gaps in coverage — mitigation, role assignment, and timeline tracking (present in the body) are not named as actions in the description. It is above the 1-2-action anchor because three distinct actions span the workflow's arc, but below comprehensive coverage.

Completeness

It clearly answers "what" ("Run an incident response workflow — triage, communicate, and write postmortem") and explicitly answers "when" with concrete trigger phrases via the "Trigger with..." clause listing five distinct invocation scenarios. This squarely matches the anchor for explicitly answering both what AND when with concrete trigger phrases.

Trigger Term Quality

Quoted phrases "we have an incident" and "production is down" are exactly the natural utterances users would say, plus "an alert that needs severity assessment", "a status update mid-incident", and "writing a blameless postmortem after resolution" give good coverage. Common synonyms like "outage", "site down", "SEV", and "on-call" are missing, so it fits the good-coverage-with-a-few-gaps anchor rather than comprehensive synonym coverage.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Incident response is a clear niche and the triggers are incident-specific utterances; "a status update mid-incident" is qualified to avoid firing on general status-update requests. Distinct trigger phrases like "production is down" and "blameless postmortem" give minimal conflict risk with other skills.