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88%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.
An exceptionally well-engineered orchestration skill: concrete commands and thresholds everywhere, rigorously sequenced workflows with validation at every spend-point, and a well-wired one-level-deep reference bundle. The only real costs are redundancy across the interview/iterate/self-review sections and a body that carries more inline edge-case detail than a lean overview would.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeatedly-stated authorization rules (interview question 4, run ceiling, two-branch rule) into one canonical section and reference it from Purpose, Iterate, and Self-Review instead of restating them in each place.
Move the baseline-gate edge-case taxonomy (counterexample_count logic, fallback-SDK/JavaScript cataloging exceptions, Python instrumentation caveat) into references/sweep-and-verdicts.md or references/catalog-reconstruction.md, keeping in the body only the gate's pass/fail decision rule.
Trim the Self-Review checklist to items not already enforced inline at the workflow step where they apply (e.g., announcement verification and history.md rows are already mandated in the First sweep steps), reducing body length without losing coverage.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Efficient and dense — it assumes competence (no generic mutation-testing or git/docker explanations) and confines definitions to Antithesis-specific concepts — but the interview-question-4/ceiling rules, clean.sh caveats, and Self-Review checklist restate constraints already given in earlier sections, so some trimming is possible. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Consistently executable guidance: named scripts with roles (sync-patches.sh, verify-mutant.sh, select-mutant.sh), exact artifact paths, exact flags (--source, --ephemeral), exact version thresholds ("snouty older than 0.8.0"), a named verdict taxonomy, and explicit skill routing ("do not run snouty launch directly") — no meaningful gaps for an instruction-orchestration skill. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Three fully sequenced workflows (14-step first sweep, iterate, resume) with explicit validation checkpoints throughout — baseline gate before mutant design, verify-mutant.sh and announcement checks before launch, static validation before spending runs, clean.sh confirming no residue — plus feedback loops for error recovery and a Self-Review checklist, fully satisfying the batch-operation validation requirement. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good bundle structure: a Reference Files table with when-to-read guidance, section-level pointers into seven real (verified) reference files, and executable harness assets one level deep. Held at 4 because the ~300-line body inlines detailed edge-case taxonomy (counterexample_count logic, fallback-SDK/JavaScript exceptions, instrumentation caveats) that could live in a reference, and reference files cross-point to one another. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |