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81%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.
A well-structured, highly actionable instruction-only skill body with strong workflow sequencing, explicit validation and feedback loops, and a self-review checklist. Its weaknesses are minor: an orphaned reference file that is never linked, a few conversational passages, and complete reliance on reference files for code-level examples.
Suggestions
Add references/multi-test-directories.md to the Reference Files table (e.g., "When the workload needs multiple test directories") or link it from the test-commands workflow step, so the 135-line file is discoverable rather than orphaned.
Remove the duplicated "**Skill version:** 2026-10-21 4f8d80b" line — the version already lives in frontmatter metadata, and the dated value is time-sensitive information that will drift.
Tighten the conversational passages in "Present and recommend" (e.g., the provenance re-confirmation rationale and "The user will speak up if it no longer matches...") to preserve clarity at lower token cost.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and domain-specific (SDK assertion types, command prefixes, timeline semantics) with almost no explanation of concepts Claude already knows, but has minor trim candidates: the duplicated "**Skill version:** 2026-10-21 4f8d80b" line carrying time-sensitive version/date info already in frontmatter, and conversational prose in "Present and recommend" ("The user will speak up if it no longer matches the system they're working on"). It is not 5 because of those instances, and not 3 because there is no padded or unnecessary explanatory section. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance throughout: exact commands ("snouty --version", "snouty update", "snouty validate"), exact paths ("antithesis/scratchbook/properties/{slug}.md", "/opt/antithesis/test/v1/{name}/"), exact command prefixes, and concrete decision strategies with rationale. It is not 5 because the actual assertion-writing has no inline example — all code-level detail is deferred to references/assertions.md — leaving minor gaps in the body itself; it is not 3 because nothing is pseudocode or vague. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Two explicitly numbered workflows ("Implement next property", "Post-triage iteration") with explicit gating ("DO NOT PROCEED if..."), a built-in feedback loop ("unfired ones are evidence the workload isn't reaching its targets and the starting point for iteration"), a validation step ("Use `snouty validate` on `antithesis/config`... Make sure to build the latest images before running validate"), and a comprehensive self-review checklist with fresh-context reviewer instructions. This matches the anchor with explicit validation, feedback loops, and checklists; it is clearly not 4, which allows missing checkpoints. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A Reference Files table with a "When to read" column clearly signals all five referenced files, which all exist and are peer-level. However, the actual bundle contains references/multi-test-directories.md (135 lines) that is orphaned — absent from the table and referenced nowhere in SKILL.md or by peer references — so navigation to that content relies on chance discovery. Good structure with a minor organization gap fits anchor 4; it is not 5 because of the orphan file, and not 3 because the rest of the structure is well-signaled and one level deep. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |