Conciseness

The body is lean, assumes Claude's competence, and adds no padding about what Basic Memory or decisions are; the one framing sentence usefully scopes the skill rather than explaining known concepts.

Actionability

Gives concrete, specific guidance — config precedence, exact frontmatter (type/note_type/status/decided/project), and the required note sections — plus an explicit directive to apply the bm-writing skill before drafting.

Workflow Clarity

Five clearly sequenced steps with an unambiguous order and a final confirm/permalink checkpoint; this is a non-destructive single-purpose note-capture task, so the validation-loop cap does not apply.

Progressive Disclosure

Under 50 lines with no bundle files and no need for external references; sections are well-organized, satisfying the simple-skill allowance for a top score.

Specificity

Names the concrete action ("Capture a durable engineering decision") plus the specific elements captured (rationale, alternatives, consequences, affected work), matching the multi-action 3 anchor.

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what (capture a decision with rationale/alternatives/consequences) and when ("Use when the user makes or asks to record a real choice"), with concrete triggers.

Trigger Term Quality

Quotes natural user phrasing ("let's go with X", "record this decision") plus the slash-command invocation, covering terms a user would actually say.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped to durable engineering decisions in Basic Memory with distinct triggers (decision-capture phrasing and the /basic-memory:bm-decide command), unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.