Content
70%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-organized, single-file analytical framework with a clear assess-decide-verify workflow and an explicit verification checklist. It loses points on conciseness (mildly redundant overview/outcomes sections) and actionability (a few abstract bullets and no worked example).
Suggestions
Trim the Overview sentence and the 'Expected Outcomes' section, whose points are already implied by the Decision Framework's Proceed/Avoid conditions.
Make the vaguer assessment bullets actionable — e.g. replace 'Study similar past campaigns' with a concrete step like 'List 2-3 comparable campaigns and note their outcome, supply-line length, and decisive-engagement result.'
Add a brief worked example applying the five criteria to one campaign (e.g. Qin vs. Xiongnu) so the end-to-end assessment procedure is unambiguous.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly lean bullet points with specialized historical quotes that earn their place, but the Overview sentence ('A systematic approach... drawing on historical precedents and cost-benefit analysis') and the 'Expected Outcomes' section restate what the Decision Framework already implies, so it could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The Decision Framework gives concrete Proceed/Avoid conditions and the criteria pose specific questions ('Is the territory economically productive?'), but some bullets stay abstract ('Study similar past campaigns', 'Identify patterns of success and failure') and there is no worked example showing how to apply the framework end-to-end. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The process is clearly sequenced — assess five criteria, apply the Decision Framework, then run the Verification checklist ('Confirm all five assessment criteria... have been evaluated', 'Validate that the cost-benefit analysis accounts for supply line ratios') — with explicit validation checkpoints; this is not capped at 2 because the operation is analytical, not destructive or batch. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | This is a single-file, self-contained skill with no external references needed, organized into clear sections (Overview, Assessment Criteria, Decision Framework, Expected Outcomes, Verification), which satisfies the simple-skills guideline for a top score. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |