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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 highly actionable orchestration policy: exact tool-call syntax, literal delegation message templates, scenario-specific compositions, a sequenced spawn order with required QA and architect-review gates, and concrete error-recovery loops. Its main weakness is redundancy — the never-implement rule and its temptation scenarios are repeated across the Cardinal Rule, Delegation, and Error Recovery sections — plus a longish single-file layout with no offloaded references.
Suggestions
Merge the Cardinal Rule 'temptations' list with the Error Recovery section — they cover the same four scenarios (agent failure, file conflict, task status, cascading error) twice; keep one canonical list and reference it from the other section.
State the never-implement rule once (in The Cardinal Rule) and cut the repetitions of it in the Delegation opener ('not to implement') and Error Recovery opener ('you coordinate, you don't implement').
Deduplicate the slow-teammate guidance: 'Monitor, don't intervene' in Coordination and 'Slow teammate' in Error Recovery give the same advice; keep the fuller Error Recovery version and drop the duplicate bullet.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient, imperative, and project-specific (no explaining of concepts Claude already knows), but the never-implement rule is stated three times — "The team lead NEVER implements", "not to implement" (Delegation opener), "you coordinate, you don't implement" (Error Recovery) — and the Cardinal Rule temptations list ("A file conflict needs resolution — don't touch the file", "An error cascades...") duplicates the Error Recovery section nearly bullet-for-bullet, as does "Monitor, don't intervene" vs "Slow teammate". More than minor trimming opportunity, but far from padded — fits the 3 anchor ('could be tightened') rather than 2 ('several padded sections'). | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance throughout: exact call syntax ("Task(subagent_type=<agent>, prompt=\"...\")", "Multiple `Task(..., run_in_background=true)` calls", "`TeamCreate` then `Task(..., team_name, name)`", "`addBlockedBy` dependencies", "Send `shutdown_request` to each teammate", "Call `TeamDelete`"), a copy-paste delegation message ("Implement the plugin system per the federation/plugin-system FEATURE. Reference architecture/ for context."), a worked good/bad task-description pair ("Verify all sitemap URLs return HTTP 200 and report any failures"), and a scenario-to-agents composition table. As an instruction-only skill, absence of code is not penalized; the guidance is directly executable and covers the common cases — matches the 5 anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Spawn order is a numbered 1-6 sequence with explicit entry/exit points ("A bug fix starts at step 3. A research question stops at step 1"), the Constructor Studio flow includes a review gate ("2. Team lead reviews and approves the design"), and validation is mandatory with feedback loops — "Once implementation is complete, invoke the `qa` agent... Route blockers back to the developer", "Once QA passes, have an architect review... Route findings back to the developer", plus error-recovery loops (cascade: "Stop the chain, route the fix to the agent who owns the source, then reassess downstream tasks") and a shutdown checklist. Matches the 5 anchor: explicit validation steps, error-recovery feedback loops, checklists. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist (no references/, scripts/, or assets/), and the one external pointer — "Consult [architecture/DESIGN.md](../../../architecture/DESIGN.md)" — is clearly signaled at the top and one level deep. Sections are well organized with navigation-friendly tables (file ownership, subagent vs teammate, typical compositions). Not a 5: at ~180 lines, blocks like the six per-agent spawn criteria and the typical-compositions table are inline reference material that could be split out, and the 5 anchor ('content appropriately split') plus the under-50-lines exception don't apply; comfortably above the 3 anchor since nothing here is API-reference-style content that clearly belongs in a separate file. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |