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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 well-structured workflow skill with an exemplary verification phase and strong progressive-disclosure instincts — dense templates and schemas are consistently delegated to separate files with explicit section pointers. The main gaps are the absence of any inline worked example (a sample trigger description or SKILL.md skeleton) and a few trimmable rationale sentences.
Suggestions
Include one short worked example inline — e.g., a sample trigger description line or a minimal frontmatter snippet — so an agent has a concrete model before jumping to contributing/adding-a-skill.md for the full template.
Trim rationale sentences like "Agents that study existing skills first produce consistent, high-quality results rather than inventing new formats" to bare directives; the instructions carry the point on their own.
Show a two-line concrete example of registering a skill in scripts/sync-shared-references.sh (the actual line format), since Step 3 tells the agent to edit it without showing what an entry looks like.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~107-line body is mostly efficient — it defers templates and dense material to contributing/adding-a-skill.md and references/ — but a few rationale sentences (e.g., "Agents that study existing skills first produce consistent, high-quality results rather than inventing new formats") are padding that could be trimmed, matching the 4 anchor rather than the lean 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete throughout: exact file paths, section pointers (§ "Directory Structure"), executable commands (bash scripts/sync-shared-references.sh), and a 7-item verification checklist. It falls short of 5 because it never shows a worked example (e.g., a sample trigger description or frontmatter snippet) inline — everything exemplary is delegated to other files. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 0–4 are clearly sequenced from domain understanding through verification, ending in an explicit validation checklist covering frontmatter, body completeness, reference-link existence, README updates, bloat, shared-reference syncing, and agent readability — matching the 5 anchor's checklist and feedback-loop criteria. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Structure is good: dense material is explicitly pushed to references/ files and the contributing guide, and external references are one level deep and clearly signaled with purpose. It misses 5 because the inline "Writing effective trigger descriptions" guidance overlaps material the referenced template guide covers, and the referenced paths (contributing/, skills/, scripts/) lie outside the bundle and cannot be verified here. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |