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 well-structured routing skill: excellent progressive disclosure with per-pillar reference loading, fully executable CLI commands, and a clearly sequenced discovery workflow with pivot-on-failure feedback. The main cost is token duplication — Key Principles and parts of the CLI table and Examples restate guidance already given earlier in the file.
Suggestions
Remove or drastically shrink the 'Key Principles' section — every bullet restates guidance already covered by Loading References, Discovery Workflow, and Fallback and Pivoting.
Trim the CLI Commands Reference table to commands not already shown verbatim in the Discovery Workflow (e.g., keep cx schema, cx dashboards rows; drop duplicate search-fields rows), or drop Examples 2-4 in favor of one canonical ambiguous-question example.
Add one concrete search command or pattern to Discovery Workflow Step 3 (e.g., a ripgrep example for metric registration) so that step matches the executability of the rest of the workflow.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient — commands are concrete and tables are dense — but there is noticeable duplication: the 'Key Principles' section restates the Loading References table, Discovery Workflow, and Fallback section ('Load references before querying', 'Pivot on failure'); the CLI Commands Reference table re-lists discovery commands already shown verbatim; and the Examples section re-derives routing already covered by the Quick Routing Guide. This fits anchor 3 (mostly efficient but could be tightened) rather than 2 (several unnecessary explanations), since nothing explains concepts Claude already knows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands throughout: 'cx metrics search --name '*transaction*'', 'cx search-fields "payment_failed" -s value --dataset logs', 'cx spans "filter $l.serviceName == \'<service>\'" --limit 10', with exact flags, datasets, and a concrete requirement note about API credentials. Examples are worked end-to-end (Example 1 walks the ambiguous business question through metrics, logs, and spans discovery). Matches the top anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Discovery Workflow is a clearly sequenced 4-step process with explicit branch checkpoints ("If a matching metric is found, load ... and continue") and an error-recovery loop in Fallback and Pivoting ("Do not stop after one failed attempt. Try at least two pillars"). It falls short of anchor 5 because Step 3 (codebase search) has no concrete commands or checkpoints — only prose about what to look for — and validation of discovery results (e.g., verifying a found field actually contains data) is implicit; still clearly above anchor 3, which lacks checkpoints entirely. The destructive/batch validation cap does not apply since all commands are read-only. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a clean overview that routes to seven one-level-deep reference files (all of which exist in the bundle: dataprime-reference.md, logs-querying.md, spans-querying.md, metrics-querying.md, promql-guidelines.md, rum-querying.md, rum-fields.md), each loaded per pillar via the Loading References table with explicit paths. Navigation is easy, content is appropriately split, and no detail that belongs in references is inlined. Matches the top anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |