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 tightly written orchestration body: lean sections, concrete rules, an unambiguous sequence, and disciplined deferral of detail to ten existing reference files with explicit read triggers. Both sub-5 dimensions are near-misses — actionability defers a few specifics to references by design, and conciseness has minor repeated rationale. Validation and failure handling for this destructive batch workflow are present in the body and its per-action flows.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and imperative: every section states rules and pointers with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. Minor trimming is possible — the "store only compounds value" rationale is repeated in the opening and the Discoverability section, and a few justificatory sentences ("A contradiction misleads actively, so it outranks individual staleness") could be shortened. Anchor 4, not 5, because of these small redundancies. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is highly concrete for an instruction-only skill: exact paths (`<root>/solutions/`, `<repo-root>/.compound-engineering/config.yaml`), a copy-paste confirmation prompt with numbered options, a subagent clause to carry verbatim, `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, and explicit stop conditions. It sits at anchor 4 rather than 5 because some execution specifics ("commit in the repo's convention", validator invocation) are deferred to reference files. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly ordered pipeline (Mode → Worth lens → Artifact Root → Scope → Investigate → Classify → Execute → Vocabulary Capture → Report → Commit → Discoverability Check) with validation checkpoints and error-recovery fallbacks stated in the body: failed writes become Recommended and the run continues, an invalid docs_root stops with a named error, the auto-delete rule carries pre-checks, and the git-failure fallback is signaled. The destructive/batch cap does not apply — validation (bundled validators, pre-checks, confirmation gate) is present. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Exemplary overview structure: each stage bold-signals "**Read `references/x.md`**" together with what that file covers, and all ten referenced files exist in the bundle. Scripts and assets are reached one level down from the reference files rather than inlined in the body, keeping SKILL.md a lean index with one-level-deep navigation. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |