Content
68%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.
The body is highly actionable — exact commands, flags, and three complete JSON payloads — with sensible progressive disclosure to five real one-level-deep reference files. It loses points for duplicated sections (suppression table, alert-type table, priority rule), content that belongs in the reference files, and a lack of validation around the destructive delete operation.
Suggestions
Remove the duplicate suppression-rules table (keep only the '## Suppression Rules' section) and trim the 12-row alert-types table to a pointer into references/alert-schemas.md, which already documents all 12 types.
Add an explicit verification checkpoint to destructive and multi-profile operations, e.g. confirm the alert ID with `cx alerts get <id>` before `cx alerts delete <id>`, and re-list per profile when using repeatable `-p <profile>`.
State the 'always ask for priority' rule once (in '## Priority Levels') instead of repeating it in '## Key Principles', freeing tokens for the missing delete/multi-profile validation guidance.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient tables and examples, but there is real duplication: the suppression-rules command table appears twice verbatim ("## CLI Commands" and "## Suppression Rules"), the 12-row alert-types table re-states content already covered in references/alert-schemas.md, and "Always ask for priority" is stated in both "## Priority Levels" and "## Key Principles". This fits level 3 ('could be tightened') better than 4 ('minor instances'), since whole sections are redundant rather than individual phrases. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable throughout: a command table with exact flags (`cx alerts list --name <filter>`, `-o json`, `--from-file <path>`, `-p <profile>`), three complete copy-paste JSON payloads covering the common cases (logs threshold, metric threshold, logs immediate), and concrete bash snippets like `cx alerts list -o json | jq '.[] | select(.status == "ALERTING")'`. Not below 5 because commands and examples cover the common cases with no pseudocode. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The create workflow is a clear 6-step sequence with an explicit validation checkpoint ("Verify with `cx alerts list --name`" / "Verify after create"), but the skill covers the destructive `cx alerts delete <id>` with no verification step for deletion, and the batch-style `-p <profile>` repeatable multi-profile flag has no validation either. Per the rubric's cap, a destructive operation without validation cannot score above 3; the mitigation 'Disable, don't delete' is a principle, not a checkpoint, so level 4's 'most checkpoints present' is not reached for the destructive path. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good structure: SKILL.md is an overview with clear sections, all five referenced files (references/alert-schemas.md, dataprime-reference.md, logs-querying.md, promql-guidelines.md, spans-querying.md) exist, are one level deep, and are well-signaled with per-file descriptions in "## Additional Resources" plus an inline pointer in the create workflow. Not 5 because the 12-type alert table and duplicated suppression-rules content are inline material that belongs in the reference files, leaving minor organization gaps; not 3 because navigation is easy and references are clearly signaled, not buried. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |