Content
85%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, well-sequenced planning skill with concrete commands, templates, checkpoints, and properly externalized worked examples. Its main weakness is conciseness: several core ideas (differential gate, xfail-as-gate, registry-driven harnesses) are restated in multiple sections and could be consolidated.
Suggestions
Consolidate the differential-gate tagging (exact / known-diff(direction) / merge) into a single canonical statement and reference it from step 1, step 5, and the "Common axes" list instead of re-explaining it each time.
Define "xfail-as-gate" once (where it first appears in step 5) and point back to that definition from the worked-examples summaries rather than restating the rationale.
Trim the "Common axes worth probing" list to only axes not already covered in the numbered workflow, or mark it explicitly as a recap, to reduce the perceived repetition between the workflow and the axes list.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly substantive domain guidance rather than concepts Claude already knows, but noticeably long with redundancy — the differential-gate (exact/known-diff/merge), xfail-as-gate, and registry-driven-harness points are each restated across step 1, step 5, the "Common axes" list, and the worked examples. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides copy-paste-ready commands (gh issue view … --json, git worktree list --porcelain, git show <branch>:<path>), concrete directory pointers (src/backend, src/ingestion, src/frontend) and literal compact/full output templates covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly numbered 8-step sequence (1, 1b, 2–8) with explicit checkpoints ("resolve them before claiming a test group's coverage", "report the mismatch before changing expectations", "confirm the boundary with the user") and an Acceptance checklist in the template. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is the procedural overview; five worked examples are split into real, one-level-deep reference files (references/example-*.md) that are clearly signaled and summarized in the "Worked examples" section, giving easy navigation. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |