Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a strong skill that serves well as a routing and discovery entry point for telemetry querying. It provides concrete CLI commands, clear multi-step workflows with decision points and fallback strategies, and well-organized progressive disclosure to reference files. The main weakness is moderate redundancy—the examples section and key principles section restate content already covered in the routing guide and discovery workflow, which could be tightened to save tokens.
Suggestions
Consider trimming the Examples section to 1-2 examples instead of 4, since they largely restate the routing guide and discovery workflow patterns already covered above.
The Key Principles section at the end restates guidance already given inline; consider removing it or reducing it to a single-line reminder to check the Loading References table.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is mostly efficient and well-structured, but includes some redundancy—the examples section partially restates the routing guide and discovery workflow, and the CLI commands table repeats information already covered in the discovery steps. The key principles section also largely restates what was already said. However, it avoids explaining basic concepts Claude would know. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides concrete, copy-paste-ready CLI commands throughout (e.g., `cx metrics search --name '*transaction*'`, `cx search-fields "transaction amount" --dataset logs`). The discovery workflow gives specific executable steps, and the CLI reference table is comprehensive with clear 'when to use' guidance. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The discovery workflow is clearly sequenced (Steps 1-4) with explicit decision points ('If a matching metric is found, load X and continue'). The fallback/pivoting section provides clear error recovery guidance ('Try at least two pillars before concluding the data does not exist'). The routing guide provides clear first-choice and fallback paths. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill serves as a clear routing/entry-point document that directs to specific reference files (dataprime-reference.md, logs-querying.md, spans-querying.md, etc.) via a well-organized loading table. References are one level deep and clearly signaled. It also routes to other workflow skills for non-investigative tasks. Note: no bundle files were provided to verify the referenced files exist, but the structure itself is exemplary. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |