Content
47%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill is a well-structured orchestration document with excellent workflow clarity and clear phase sequencing, but it suffers significantly from verbosity — it reads more like an architecture design document than a concise skill instruction. The extensive pseudocode, ASCII diagrams, and inline implementation details (termination logic, TodoWrite patterns, coordinator checklists) bloat the content far beyond what's needed for an orchestrator that delegates to phase files. The actionability is moderate since the actual executable details are deferred to phase files not included in the bundle.
Suggestions
Reduce the SKILL.md to a lean orchestrator overview (~80-100 lines max) by moving termination logic, TodoWrite patterns, error handling tables, and the coordinator checklist into their respective phase files or a shared utilities reference.
Replace the illustrative JavaScript pseudocode with actual executable commands or tool invocations that Claude can directly use, or clearly mark them as the phase files' responsibility and remove them from the orchestrator.
Consolidate the three separate flow diagrams (Architecture Overview, Chain Mode Extension, Data Flow) into a single concise diagram — they largely repeat the same information.
Move the Interactive Preference Collection code block and the detailed TodoWrite Pattern into the phase files (e.g., 01-setup.md) since they are implementation details, not orchestration-level concerns.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Extremely verbose at ~300+ lines. Contains extensive architecture diagrams, JavaScript pseudocode for orchestration logic, TodoWrite patterns, and coordinator checklists that could be dramatically condensed. Much of this (termination logic, error handling tables, data flow diagrams) is implementation detail that bloats the orchestrator document. The ASCII art diagrams, while visually appealing, consume significant tokens for information that could be stated in 1-2 sentences. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides structured pseudocode for the iteration loop, termination logic, and preference collection, but none of it is truly executable — it's illustrative JavaScript that references undefined functions (AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate) and tools (ccw cli) without complete, copy-paste-ready commands. The actual execution details are deferred to phase files that aren't provided, making the skill more of a design document than actionable instructions. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The multi-step workflow is exceptionally well-sequenced with clear phase ordering (1→2→3→4→5), explicit termination conditions (threshold, max iterations, convergence, error limit), error recovery strategies per phase with rollback mechanisms, and validation checkpoints (check termination before Phase 4, snapshot before execute). The iteration loop structure with feedback is clearly defined. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill correctly references phase documents (phases/01-setup.md through phases/05-report.md) with a clear table mapping phases to documents and purposes, following a one-level-deep pattern. However, since no bundle files are provided, we cannot verify these references exist. More critically, the SKILL.md itself contains too much inline detail (full pseudocode for termination, TodoWrite patterns, error handling) that should live in the phase files, undermining the progressive disclosure principle it espouses. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 8 / 12 Passed |