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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.
The body is an instruction-only skill with genuinely executable guidance: concrete tool calls, a worked example, an explicit retry loop, and clear precedence rules for conflicts. Its one real weakness is redundancy — the anti-fabrication and page-completeness rules are each restated three to four times across sections, which inflates token cost without adding information. Consolidating those rules into a single Evidence-rules section would push conciseness toward the top anchors.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated anti-fabrication rule (stated in workflow step 8, Evidence rules, the thin-material section, and Output discipline) into one authoritative location and cross-reference it.
Deduplicate the "keep the page full / feels complete and balanced" guidance, which appears three times in the thin-material section alone.
Consider moving the worked Example and the thin-material expansion guidance into a reference file to keep SKILL.md under ~50 lines and sharpen progressive disclosure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is imperative and assumes Claude's competence (no basic-concept explanations), but key rules are repeated across sections: "do not invent exact facts/metrics/dates/names" appears in workflow step 8, Evidence rules, the thin-material section, and Output discipline, while "keep the page full / feels complete and balanced" recurs three times. This is noticeable tightening potential (anchor 3) rather than minor over-explanation (anchor 4). | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The guidance is fully executable: exact tool signatures with parameter semantics ("grep(pattern, path, glob)" with "pattern is a literal string, not a shell regex"), concrete line-range budgets ("Prefer 50-80 lines around grep matches"), and a worked example with real calls ("read_file(path=\"/source.md\", offset=118, limit=60)") covering the common case. This matches the copy-paste-ready, common-cases-covered anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The reading workflow is an explicitly numbered 8-step sequence with a refine-and-retry feedback loop ("refine search terms and repeat grep -> targeted read"), explicit conflict-resolution checks (trust the inspected passage over the snippet; source vs. outline vs. user instruction precedence), and failure handling for missing facts (omit or state qualitatively). This matches anchor 5's explicit validation steps with error-recovery loops; it is not a destructive or batch operation, so no cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is a single self-contained file with no bundle directories and clear, well-ordered section headers (Boundary, When to use / not to use, workflow, Evidence rules, discipline sections) with accurate internal cross-references ("see 'When the inspected material is thin'"). At ~85 lines with the worked example and thin-material guidance inlined, it fits anchor 4 (good structure, minor organization gaps) rather than the under-50-line exception for a 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |