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88%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 strong, disciplined procedural skill: concrete executable commands, a clearly sequenced workflow with explicit validation checkpoints, feedback loops, and safety stops appropriate to a destructive rebase operation. The only weaknesses are mild redundancy between 'The rules' section and the numbered steps, and ~200 lines of detail kept entirely inline where a reference file could offload some of it.
Suggestions
Consolidate the bump-type arithmetic and formatting rules between 'The rules (source of truth)' and the corresponding numbered steps so each fact appears once, trimming token cost without losing clarity.
Move the CHANGELOG heading-format examples and rules-of-thumb from Step 4 into a short reference file (e.g., references/changelog-formats.md) and link to it, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview.
Consider moving the 'Prefer re-running the release' alternative into the referenced docs/release.md with a one-line pointer, since it is a fallback path rather than the core procedure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is efficient and assumes competence — commands are given bare with no library or git tutorials — but 'The rules (source of truth)' section partially duplicates the step detail (e.g., bump-type arithmetic in rule 2 restated in Step 1, formatting rule 5 restated as Step 7), which is minor over-explanation that could be trimmed. It fits anchor 4 ('efficient; minor instances that could be trimmed') rather than 5 ('every token earns its place') and is clearly above anchor 3 since nearly all content is project-specific knowledge Claude would not already know. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable with copy-paste-ready commands for every step — 'git show <version-commit> -- '**/package.json'', 'git show origin/master:packages/<pkg>/package.json | grep '"version"'', 'GIT_EDITOR=true git rebase --continue', 'yarn nx format:write' — plus a worked example ('master was 9.6.9… resolved version = 9.6.10') and exact CHANGELOG heading formats. Placeholders are explained, so nothing is pseudocode; this matches the top anchor and exceeds anchor 4's 'minor gaps'. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 0–8 are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints (Step 0 scope partition with a STOP rule, Step 5 'grep … Expect no output') and a feedback loop ('If more conflicts surface on later commits, repeat Steps 0–6; if a later conflict is out-of-scope, stop and raise it'). This is a history-rewriting batch operation and the required validation is present, so it matches the top anchor; it is above anchor 4 because every checkpoint and error-recovery path is explicit, including the merge alternative and the do-not-push safety note. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The single procedure is well organized into clearly signaled sections with an external pointer ('See docs/release.md') one level deep, and there are no bundle files to split into. It fits anchor 4 ('good structure; most content appropriately placed; minor organization gaps') rather than 5 because at ~200 lines all detail — e.g., the two CHANGELOG heading shapes and rules-of-thumb in Step 4 — lives inline in SKILL.md where a small reference file could carry it; it is above anchor 3 since nothing that clearly belongs elsewhere is inlined and navigation is easy. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |