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86%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 exemplary hub-and-spoke router: SKILL.md stays lean, delegates all capability detail to real, well-indexed entry-point references, and gives unusually concrete universal rules (exact header template, named CLI commands, hard constraints). The main trim opportunities are the duplicated cross-capability handoff rule and the absence of any validation checkpoint at the routing level itself.
Suggestions
State the cross-capability handoff rule once — it currently appears both at the end of Step 0 and again as a 'Cross-capability handoff' universal rule with near-identical wording; keep only the universal-rules instance.
Name the individual assets/ template files (e.g., solr-report-template.md, executive-summary-template.md) in the assets line so the FULL_ASSESSMENT rendering path is discoverable from SKILL.md without loading an entry-point reference first.
Add a one-line checkpoint after loading an entry-point reference (e.g., confirm the reference's 'When to use this capability' triggers match the prompt before proceeding) to close the workflow's only validation gap.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is a lean router — every section carries load (Step 0 table, universal rules, cross-cutting ref index, non-goals, MCP-vs-local guardrail) with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows. It falls short of 5 mainly because the cross-capability handoff rule is stated twice ("If a prompt spans capabilities (e.g., \"migrate from Solr AND set up RAG...\")" in Step 0 and again verbatim as a universal rule) and the guardrail section runs long. Not a 3 — there is no padded or unnecessary explanation, just minor duplication to trim. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and executable throughout: a copy-paste report-header template ("> Generated: <ISO 8601 timestamp> | Skill: amazon-opensearch-service v<N>") with the exact tool to call ("the `current_time` tool") and where to read the version; named commands ("aws opensearch describe-domain", "aws opensearchserverless create-collection", "awscurl" for SigV4); exact entry-point file links per capability; and exact handoff phrasing. For an instruction/routing skill this meets the fully-actionable top anchor, and per the rubric's code-vs-instruction note the absence of code blocks is not penalized. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence is crisp and unambiguous: "Step 0: detect the capability — first thing you do", state the detected capability in the first sentence with an example utterance, load the named entry-point reference, with an explicit fallback rule for multi-capability prompts and per-capability routing table. It is not 5 because the body itself contains no validation/checkpoint steps (e.g., verifying the loaded reference matches the detected capability) — checkpoints are delegated to the entry-point references, leaving a minor gap at this level; not 3 because the routing sequence is complete and explicit with a clear single entry action. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a clear overview that holds no capability detail itself ("Everything else ... lives in the entry-point reference") and points to six well-signaled entry-point references, all of which exist in the bundle, plus an explicitly labeled cross-cutting reference list. Each entry-point reference verified in the bundle carries a complete capability index ("There are NO other provisioning files outside references/provisioning-*.md"), so the second hop is fully indexed and easy to navigate rather than buried. Not 4 — the only nit is that assets/ are described generically ("report templates for FULL_ASSESSMENT renderings") without naming individual files, which does not impair navigation. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |