Content
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.
The body is a lean, well-organized review/audit skill that provides a concrete classification taxonomy, an explicit compatibility-check checklist, and a defined output structure with clear guardrails. The main gap is the absence of exact executable Buf commands and a structured validate-fix-retry loop.
Suggestions
Add the exact Buf breaking-check command (and any project-specific flags) so the 'Run Buf breaking checks' step is copy-paste executable rather than implied.
Make the validation feedback loop explicit in the workflow (e.g., 'if Buf breaking or behavioural tests fail: fix the change, re-run, and only proceed when green') to lift workflow_clarity to 5.
Optionally include one short before/after protobuf diff example illustrating each of the Additive/Behavioural/Deprecated/Breaking classifications to ground the taxonomy.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean, assumes Claude's intelligence (no explaining what protobuf/ConnectRPC are), and every section adds non-obvious domain-specific guidance such as the pre-1.0 v1 stability caveat. Every token earns its place. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete and specific guidance is given throughout (a defined classification taxonomy, an explicit compatibility-check checklist, a required output report structure, and the instruction to run Buf breaking checks), but no exact executable commands or code are provided. It is not 5 because no copy-paste-ready commands are given; it is not 3 because the guidance is concrete and actionable rather than vague. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 7-step numbered workflow is present with explicit guardrails (break-rationale requirements and 'do not describe a Buf-clean change as semantically compatible without reviewing these behaviours'). It is not 5 because the validate/fix/retry feedback loop is implied rather than structured; it is not 3 because checkpoints and guardrails are clearly present. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is well organized into clear sections and correctly signals one-level-deep external sources of truth (ADR-045, AGENTS.md files, FDRs) without inlining them, with no nested skill-internal references. No bundle files exist, and the body is appropriately structured for an overview. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |