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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 strong, dense body: the workflow is explicitly sequenced with a smoke gate, a reproduce-on-healthy-stand classification loop, and filing triage — workflow clarity is exemplary. The deductions are minor: a few stylistic redundancies could be trimmed for token efficiency, the smoke checks and build pinning are described rather than given as runnable commands, and the single ~85-line file inlines worked examples that a leaner overview would offload.
Suggestions
Give the three smoke checks as the actual three runnable commands (or name exactly where they live), and show the image-pinning/reuse-compose steps concretely, so the gate that decides whether to plan at all is copy-paste executable.
Cut the generalizing restatement after the three cap examples ("for any input the system narrows — truncates, rounds, coerces...") and a few stylistic flourishes; the concrete cases already carry the pattern.
Move the longer worked examples (the 65-row unreachable listing, the 4,000-character silent clip) into a small references file or compress each to a one-line exemplar so SKILL.md stays a lean overview with one-level-deep detail.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The prose assumes competence throughout — no basic testing concepts are re-explained — and every section teaches a non-obvious heuristic (the "accepted, reported success, silently modified" third state, combination findings, the client/server field seam). It falls short of the score-5 lean anchor on stylistic redundancy: flourishes like "the same defect wearing different clothes" and the closing generalized restatement ("for any input the system narrows — truncates, rounds, coerces...") restate a pattern the three preceding cap examples already established. It is well above the score-3 anchor because there is no unnecessary explanation, only minor trimmable padding. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | The probes are concrete and executable in substance — "send a value far past it and then read the record back", "Capture one real request body from the interface, then compare its keys against the request type in the published OpenAPI and against the stored columns", "playwright-cli route" for hostile input. It stops short of the score-5 anchor because the smoke gate names "three commands" but only describes the three checks (migration applied, round trip, gated read) without the runnable commands, and "Pin the images to the build tag from the release commit" is direction rather than a concrete command; it is well above score-3 because the guidance is genuinely specific, not pseudocode. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The body opens with an explicit five-step sequence (Research → Smoke → Plan → Execute → File) and backs it with real validation and recovery: "If any of those fails, stop — but classify before you file. Re-run the failed check on a stand you have confirmed healthy and seeded... What reproduces there is the report; what does not is layer: stand" is an explicit validate-classify-retry feedback loop, and "Expect a mass write to a shared stand to be refused" anticipates failure of the riskiest operation. The "What not to file" section adds a final triage checkpoint, matching the score-5 anchor for explicit validation steps, error-recovery loops, and checklists. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Structure is good: clearly headed sections and well-signaled delegation to sibling skills ("Take vector semantics from quality-vector-tests/references/vector-mapping.md rather than re-deriving them") that is one level deep. It does not reach the score-5 anchor because at ~85 lines with no bundle of its own, all worked examples (the 65-row listing, the 4,000-character clip) are inlined in SKILL.md rather than split out; it stays above score-3 because the organization and cross-references are clear, not buried. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |