Content
81%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 highly actionable skill body: complete copy-paste-ready CLI commands, a well-sequenced workflow with a genuine pre-write validation checkpoint, and clear error and ambiguity handling. The drag is conciseness — repeated front-door messaging, a dated incident anecdote, and policy sections that belong in references.
Suggestions
State the front-door ownership rule once (When to Use) and drop the repeats in Step 3 and Examples — Step 3 needs only the exact confirmation sentence, not the rationale again.
Remove the dated incident (brief 20260817-101013-... closed 2026-08-20) or move it to a reference/old-patterns section; the rule ("a re-verification claim must show the actual command output") stands on its own.
Move the closure re-verification rules, decisions-queue management, and git-backup policy into a reference file (e.g. references/queue-policy.md) to slim the body toward the core capture workflow.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly operational and lean, but the front-door ownership message is stated three times ("Picking a brief back up is not this skill's job" in When to Use, "one spelling only" in Step 3, "through the front door, not through this skill" in Examples), the closure section embeds a time-sensitive dated incident ("brief 20260817-101013-... was closed 2026-08-20 with 'disproven...'") outside any old-patterns section, and the offsite-backup paragraph runs long. Mostly efficient, but it could be tightened in several places. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable guidance throughout: complete CLI invocations with all flags ("worktrail-handoff --focus "$FOCUS_TEXT" --queue-dir "$BASE" ... --json"), the duplicate-check contract including the JSON return shape and all three match branches, exact user-facing confirmation wording, and explicit failure handling ("If creation fails, report the CLI error and do not hand-write a fallback document"). | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The capture workflow is clearly sequenced (Step 1 → 1.5 → 2 → 3) with an explicit pre-write validation checkpoint (duplicate check with match/no-match/false-positive/headless branches), ambiguity resolution bounded to one AskUserQuestion, and error-recovery paths on creation failure. This matches the top anchor: clear sequence, explicit validation, feedback loops. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good structure with a clearly signaled, one-level-deep reference ("Write the brief per `references/handoff-template.md`, which holds the field rules and a complete filled-out example" — verified to exist), and the main workflow stays inline. However, the ~190-line body also inlines substantial policy content (closure re-verification rules, the decisions queue, the git backup policy) that could live in reference files, which is a minor organization gap. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |