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 well-structured, domain-rich playbook: the workflow is explicitly sequenced with validation and cost-guard checkpoints, and heavy detail is correctly offloaded to one-level-deep reference files. The two real defects are trimmable plumbing/redundancy in the body and the four advertised example files missing from the bundle.
Suggestions
Add the four missing files under examples/ (llm-judge-metric.md, narrative-metric.md, custom-code-metric.py, section-extraction-metric.py) or remove the 'Example Files' section — the dangling pointers break navigation to the most concrete guidance and are the main reason actionability and progressive disclosure fall short of 5.
Consolidate the three closing sections ('Next Steps', 'Documentation', 'Additional Resources') into one, and collapse the four scattered 'See references/advanced-patterns.md' pointers into a single index entry, to cut redundant tokens.
Move the verification-tag instructions and 'Performing Platform Actions' boilerplate into a short pinned preamble or reference file so the body opens with the Purpose and workflow content.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and almost entirely platform-specific knowledge Claude cannot know elsewhere (field-name gotchas, 'description' vs 'prompt', VALID_SKIP, cost guard), with concepts taught via compact worked examples (the spirit-vs-letter one/two-question example). It is not a 5 because of trimmable material: the verification-tag preamble and 'Performing Platform Actions' plumbing, four separate pointers to advanced-patterns.md, and overlapping closing sections ('Next Steps', 'Documentation', 'Additional Resources') that restate the same file list. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is highly concrete and executable: exact API parameters ('page_size=1', 'timestamp__gte/lte'), exact field names, a fill-in trigger prompt template, deprecated types with their failure mode ('API returns 400'), and a precise manual-fix loop (categorize, patch, re-evaluate 20-30 calls). It stops short of 5 because the complete end-to-end metric examples are delegated to the four `examples/` files, which are absent from the bundle — a reader following those pointers finds nothing. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 6-step creation workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation ('run on sample conversations, compare to expected outcomes') and a built-in feedback loop ('Iterate... until the metric matches expectations on all samples. Plan for at least one iteration'). The batch operation is properly guarded: query call count first, stop and ask if >100, and the Manual Fix First loop re-evaluates 20-30 calls to validate each fix before escalating. This matches the top anchor's sequence-plus-explicit-validation-plus-recovery pattern. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a genuine overview: templates and deep patterns are pushed to four real one-level-deep reference files (verified present and substantive), signaled inline at point of use and indexed in 'Additional Resources'. It is not a 5 because the 'Example Files' section lists four `examples/` paths (llm-judge-metric.md, narrative-metric.md, custom-code-metric.py, section-extraction-metric.py) that do not exist in the bundle — dangling references that break navigation to the most concrete material, more than a minor organization gap but leaving the overall structure good. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |