Content
77%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 content is a well-structured, gate-driven review workflow with strong progressive disclosure and clear sequencing including feedback loops. Its main weakness is conciseness — overlapping restatements across the style, completion, and decision contracts and some abstract prose could be consolidated.
Suggestions
Consolidate the overlapping rules repeated across the Mandatory Style Verification Gate, Completion Gate, and Formal Decision Contract into a single authoritative statement referenced by the others to cut redundancy.
Tighten the Canonical Assessment section by removing the abstract determinism prose ('Two reviews with the same effective candidate...') in favor of the concrete invariants that matter operationally.
Add one short worked example showing the end-to-end mapping from a sample finding through the gates to a final Formal Review block, to lift actionability from mostly-executable to fully copy-paste ready.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly lean directive prose that assumes Claude's competence (no beginner explanations of PRs or Checkstyle), but the Mandatory Style Verification Gate, Completion Gate, and Formal Decision Contract restate overlapping rules, and the Canonical Assessment section contains abstract restatement that could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | It gives copy-ready commands ('scripts/build_review_inventory.py --format json', 'scripts/review_ledger.py validate-incomplete --ledger <ledger>', '--candidate-files <path>') and an exact output-format spec with precise headings and bold lines, but some abstract framing around contracts keeps it from being fully copy-paste ready across cases. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The numbered 8-step Review Workflow is clearly sequenced with an explicit convergence feedback loop ('If it finds a new independent candidate, return to step 5') and multiple validation gates (Finding Proof Gate, Review Incomplete Proof Gate, Mandatory Style Verification Gate, Completion Gate). | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references — [evidence-access.md](references/evidence-access.md), [high-risk-review.md](references/high-risk-review.md), [sql-parser-review.md](references/sql-parser-review.md), [review-corrections.md](references/review-corrections.md) — all of which exist as real files, with detailed material appropriately split out of SKILL.md. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |