Content
85%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.
Well-structured operational content: validated preflight, sequenced triage workflows with fallbacks and a self-review checklist, and clean one-level-deep reference disclosure. Minor slack in the follow-up-skills prose and some command details deferred to references keep conciseness and actionability at 4.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is efficient and skill-specific (snouty commands, endpoint behavior, workflow steps) with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows, but a few sections could be trimmed — e.g., the long 'antithesis-mutation-testing' bullet and the Self-Review preamble. Fits 'Efficient; minor instances of over-explanation' rather than the 5 anchor's every-token-earns-its-place. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, copy-paste-ready commands are given ('snouty doctor --json', the jq tenant lookup, 'snouty runs --json show ${RUN_ID}', 'snouty runs show <RUN_ID> --web') with named workflows, but some exact command forms (properties fetch syntax, search queries) are deferred to reference files. Mostly executable guidance with minor gaps, not fully self-contained. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Workflows are clearly sequenced with explicit validation (preflight: 'Proceed only when the top-level ok is true and the api_key check's status is ok. Otherwise relay the failing check's message/notes and stop'), error-recovery loops ('If you aren't certain what caused the issue, consider downloading logs from other counterexamples... Compare each occurrence'), fallback branches for incomplete runs, and a self-review checklist. Matches the 5 anchor: explicit validation, feedback loops, and a checklist. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The ~150-line overview explicitly instructs 'Do NOT read them all up front — only read a reference file when you are told to' and names each of the five existing reference files at its point of need, with 666 lines of detail appropriately split out. The single cross-reference (properties.md → references/logs.md) is redundant with a direct body link, so no information is gated behind a two-level chain. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |