Content
80%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 exceptionally concise and well-structured with concrete, actionable rules, but it lacks an explicit verification checkpoint before updating the state file, which caps workflow clarity for a batch operation. Adding a brief validation step would round it out.
Suggestions
Add an explicit verification checkpoint before writing the state file, e.g. "Before writing issue-triage-state.md, confirm no auto-label/close/comment was performed and that every P0/P1 item is escalated."
Define the P0-P3 priority mapping and the L2 allowlist (or point to where they live) to close the actionability gaps.
Specify how duplicates are detected (e.g. title similarity, linked-PR overlap) so the dedup step is executable rather than implied.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence — terse role framing ("You are an issue triage agent. Keep the issue queue legible.") and tight bullets with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every token earns its place, matching the 5 anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, specific guidance: exact scan sources, a defined output format (Top 5 P0-P3, proposed labels, needs-human bucket, possible duplicates), and precise rules (e.g. note "possible duplicate of #NNN"); it stays at 4 rather than 5 because the deduplication method, the P0-P3 mapping, and the L2 allowlist contents are left undefined. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear scan→output→rules sequence is present, but this is a batch operation (scans all open issues) with no explicit validation/verification checkpoint before writing the state file, so the rubric's batch-operation cap limits workflow_clarity to 3 even though the steps themselves are well ordered. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Under 50 lines with no need for external references, yet well-organized into clearly headed sections (Scan Sources, Output, Rules); per the rubric's simple-skill exception this earns a 5 on progressive disclosure. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |