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86%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.
An exemplary lean, repo-specific review procedure: concrete classification taxonomy, a thoughtful checklist of behaviors schema comparison cannot verify, explicit validation commands, and clean one-level delegation to policy files. The only soft spots are the absence of explicit failure-handling after a breaking-check failure and exact command invocations being delegated rather than inlined.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Every sentence is an instruction with zero concept explanation or padding ('Do not repeat these policies in the review' actively suppresses token waste). It matches anchor 5: lean, assumes Claude's competence, every token earns its place. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | The guidance is concrete and executable — named classification categories ('additive, behavioral, deprecated, or breaking'), an enumerated behavior checklist, and a named command ('Run Buf breaking checks and tests'). It is not 5 because exact Buf invocations and the release-policy details are delegated to AGENTS.md rather than given copy-paste ready; as an instruction-only skill this is only a minor gap, not a deficiency. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-5 are clearly sequenced with an explicit validation step (run Buf breaking checks and tests) and a reporting checklist ('checks run, and unresolved risks'). It falls short of 5 only because there is no error-recovery loop stating what to do when a breaking check fails — reporting unresolved risks implies it but does not make the feedback loop explicit. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The ~30-line body is well organized with numbered steps, and every external pointer (root AGENTS.md, proto/AGENTS.md, ADR-045) is one level deep, clearly signaled, and annotated with its purpose. Per the rubric's simple-skill note, content under 50 lines with no bundle files needs only well-organized sections to score 5, and there is no nested referencing to penalize. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |