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86%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-orchestrated, highly actionable pipeline skill with clean progressive disclosure into a real one-level reference bundle. Its weakness is compression pushed to the point of obscurity in a few sentences — most notably step 1's plan-retry rule — where unpacking the logic would restore clarity without meaningful token cost.
Suggestions
Rewrite step 1's retry rule as a short decision list (e.g. 'blocked -> stop; plan file exists -> proceed; neither -> re-invoke ce-plan once with the same brief') — the current single double-negative sentence is the least readable passage in the skill.
Inline one-line summaries of what steps 3, 5, and 6 actually do before deferring to references/review-followup.md, so the numbered pipeline is followable without leaving SKILL.md.
Soften absolute compression where it costs precision: 'roughly sub-10-line change' and 'a change that hangs on a judgment the user did not settle' would be easier to apply consistently with a concrete example or threshold each.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with zero padding — no concept explanations, no throat-clearing — and assumes Claude's competence throughout ('Resolve every skill named here against the host's available-skills list'). It falls short of 'every token earns its place' only because a handful of over-compressed sentences (e.g. the step 1 retry rule 'Only absence of both a blocker and a plan file ce-plan reported writing this run invokes ce-plan a second time...') cost more re-reading than a slightly longer phrasing would. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully concrete and executable: exact invocations with modes and parameters ('invoke the ce-work skill with mode:return-to-caller <plan-path-from-step-1>', 'ce-code-review... mode:agent plan:<plan-path>', 'ce-commit-push-pr... mode:pipeline branding:on'), a literal command ('Run git remote once'), a literal output token ('Output <promise>DONE</promise>'), and explicit skip conditions per step. Per the rubric's instruction-skill note, absence of code is not penalized when the guidance is this actionable. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | An 11-step numbered sequence with explicit validation gates ('Only a valid status: complete may advance; every other status or malformed return stops the pipeline'), a blocked-status feedback rule, a shipping precondition, and a separate enumerated stop list — squarely between anchors 4 and 5. It misses 5 because substantive content for steps 3–7 lives in references/review-followup.md ('it governs steps 3 through 7') rather than in the sequence itself, and the tangled step-1 double-negative retry rule requires several readings to execute correctly. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a genuine overview/router: routing rules and step mechanics are split across ten reference files, each one level deep, every cited path exists in references/, and each is signaled with its purpose and read-timing ('Read references/work-return.md first', 'it alone defines the routes...'). No inlined content belongs in a separate file, and navigation is unambiguous. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |