Content
75%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 strong, executable workflow: concrete commands, a rigorous per-package integrity audit with verdict gates, failure handling, and a structured recap. The main defects are small — a phase-count inconsistency, a missing post-bump test-verification step, a non-executable provenance check, and an oversized inline prompt template.
Suggestions
Fix the phase-count mismatch: the intro says "three phases: discovery, integrity audit, and execution" but a Phase 4 (Recap) follows.
Add a post-bump verification step to Phase 3 (e.g. run the project's tests/build after `bun update` and roll back or defer on failure), since the tier table promises "run tests" but execution never does.
Make the provenance check concrete with an executable command (e.g. how to inspect attestations for a specific package), matching the specificity of the other four sub-agent checks.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes competence — commands, a tier table, and JSON schemas with almost no concept explanation. Minor chattiness ("This is the core of the process", "This is the 'you've been putting this off' section", "that's a good sign") and the Sonnet justification sentence keep it just below the every-token-earns-its-place anchor of 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Mostly executable and copy-paste ready: exact `bun outdated`/`npm view`/`npm diff`/`bun update pkg@version` commands plus a fully parameterized sub-agent prompt with a JSON report schema. Minor gaps: the provenance check says "Note whether the package has provenance attestations" without an executable per-package command, and there is no example snippet for adding `minimumReleaseAgeExcludes` to `bunfig.toml`. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The four phases are clearly sequenced with an explicit validation gate (every package audited before touching the lockfile) and feedback loops (sub-agent failure → defer; age-gate conflict → excludes). It falls short of 5 because the intro claims "This process has three phases" while a Phase 4 exists, and the tier table's "run tests" action never appears as a post-bump verification step in Phase 3 — a checkpoint left implicit in a batch operation. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Clear phase-based structure with well-labeled subsections and no nested references, and no bundle files exist to verify. The ~60-line sub-agent prompt template inlined in Phase 2 is content that could plausibly live in a reference file, which keeps it at 'good structure, minor organization gaps' rather than the fully-split ideal. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |