Content
71%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 efficient, well-sectioned overview with genuinely package-specific facts and sensible guardrails, and it respects the token budget admirably. Its weakness is that its actionable core is outsourced: the lone code snippet is non-executable and every path it defers to (API.md, axir-api.json, examples/) is missing from the bundle, leaving an agent with less to act on than the structure promises.
Suggestions
Make the Core Pattern executable or explicitly flag it as a shape reference: show how `llm` is obtained (e.g. a no-key transport setup) so the snippet can be adapted without consulting the absent examples/.
Ship the referenced material in the bundle (API.md, axir-api.json, examples/) or inline the minimal call shapes for the listed API surface (`AxAgent::add_child_agent`, `streaming_forward`, `RuntimeEnvelope`), since 'Relevant API Surface' currently names symbols without any usage.
Add one explicit verification step to the guardrails (e.g. 'confirm the call shape compiles against the package examples before extending it') so the implicit sequence becomes a checkable checkpoint.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and list-driven — 'Package Facts' is bare factual lines, the Core Pattern is a two-line snippet, and guardrails are single sentences — with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every line carries package-specific information, matching the 'every token earns its place' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | The Core Pattern snippet is a fragment ("auto helper = axllm::agent(...)" / "helper.forward(llm, ...)" — `llm` is undefined, no includes or setup), and 'Relevant API Surface' lists symbols without usage; the real syntax is deferred to `examples/` and `API.md`, which are not present in the skill bundle. This fits 'some concrete guidance but incomplete; missing key details' rather than anchor 4's 'mostly executable' since neither the snippet nor the deferred references can be executed as-is. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | This is a simple reference-style skill with no destructive or batch operations, and the guardrails supply implicit sequencing and decision points ('Start from package examples... before inventing a new call shape', no-key vs provider-api selection, 'Treat AxIR as the source of generated package truth'). It falls short of 5 only because the checkpoints are implicit rather than explicit — nothing tells the agent how to verify a call shape works. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Sections are well-organized and references are clearly signaled at one level ('Package API docs: `API.md` and `axir-api.json`', 'Runnable examples: `examples/`'), but none of those referenced files exist in the skill bundle, so the deferred content cannot actually be reached and the overview leans on external material it does not carry. This sits between 'references present but not clearly signaled' (they are signaled) and 'good structure, minor gaps' (the navigation is broken in practice), landing at 3. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |