Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is a well-organized, concise, and clearly sequenced activation procedure with explicit validation gates; its main weakness is reliance on runtime-resolved placeholders that make the persona-layer guidance less self-contained and executable.
Suggestions
Provide a fallback for persona placeholders so the guidance stays actionable even when {agent.*} values are absent (e.g. defaults or examples of expected values).
Add a brief concrete example of the resolved customize.toml agent block so the merge rules are verifiable rather than abstract.
Document what to do when the referenced _bmad runtime files are missing, to round out the script-failure feedback loop.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and instructional, assumes Claude's competence, and avoids explaining known concepts, with only a single mildly marketing-flavored sentence in the Overview; nearly every token earns its place. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | It includes one fully executable command and concrete file paths/merge rules, but most persona steps are driven by templated placeholders (e.g. "{agent.identity}", "{agent.communication_style}") that are not self-contained, matching the anchor for concrete-but-incomplete guidance. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 8-step activation procedure is an explicitly ordered, numbered sequence with a fallback path for script failure and a completion gate ("Do not begin the main workflow until all activation steps have been completed"), matching the anchor for a clear sequence with validation checkpoints. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, so the content is a single well-sectioned file with a clear overview, conventions block, and structured step list, which fits the simple-skill allowance for well-organized sections scoring 3. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |