Content
57%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 presents a clear overview with a strong plan template and a genuinely instructive bad-vs-good task breakdown, but it is a shell around two prompt files that are absent from the bundle, leaving the executable process and validation loops unspecified. As written, a reader cannot follow the Quick Start's first instruction.
Suggestions
Ship `prompts/planner.md` and `prompts/parallel-task.md` in the bundle (or inline their essential process steps in SKILL.md) so the core instruction "Load the full planner prompt from prompts/planner.md" is actually followable.
Add an explicit feedback loop after Phase 3, e.g., "If the subagent review finds issues, revise the affected tasks and re-run the review until it passes" — currently the outcome of the review checkpoint is undefined.
Expand the Phase 0–4 one-liners with the key decision points per phase (e.g., what makes a task 'atomic', how dependencies are declared) so the skill degrades gracefully if the prompt file is unavailable.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is largely efficient — compact key principles, a bad-vs-good example, and a template — with only minor trimmable content: the am-will/codex-skills attribution appears twice ("Source: Based on..." and "Both are based on am-will's codex-skills prompts") and the sprint/task principles partially restate what the template already encodes. It is not a 5 because of this duplication, and not a 3 because no section is genuinely padded or explains concepts Claude already knows. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | The plan template is concrete and copy-paste ready, but the actual planning process — the skill's core instruction — is delegated entirely to `prompts/planner.md` ("Load the full planner prompt... and follow its process"), which is not present in the bundle, and the Phase 0–4 list gives only one-line hints ("Research & understand the codebase"). This matches 'some concrete guidance but incomplete; missing key details' rather than a 4, whose gaps would be minor. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The five phases are clearly sequenced and Phase 3 ("Subagent review of the plan") names a checkpoint, but there is no feedback loop specifying what to do when the review finds problems, and the per-phase detail needed to actually execute the sequence lives in the missing prompt file. This sits at 'sequence present but checkpoints missing or implicit', not a 4, which would require most checkpoints with explicit validation handling. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | References to `prompts/planner.md` and `prompts/parallel-task.md` are clearly signaled and one level deep, but the bundle contains no prompts/ directory, so both references are dangling and the skill is unnavigable as shipped; the ~45-line plan template is also inlined where the referenced prompt file would naturally hold it. Structure exists (headed sections, a Files list), but the broken references and inline bulk keep this at 'some structure but could be better organized' rather than a 4. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 13 / 20 Passed |