Conciseness

The body avoids concept explanations and basic git tutorials, but rules repeat across sections: 'Read `references/atomic-commit.md` before running the phase' appears in the Phase reference, both workflow paths, and the Rules; the staging prohibition and the oneshot/skip equivalence are each stated twice. This is more than minor trimming, matching the 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' anchor.

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable: exact command 'git diff --cached --quiet' with exit-status semantics, an exact parsing rule ('exactly `oneshot` or `skip`, compared case-insensitively'), explicit branch-on-status handling with named layouts, and a concrete example invocation ('$sce-commit oneshot'). For an instruction-only skill, this is copy-paste-level actionable guidance covering the common cases.

Workflow Clarity

Two clearly sequenced paths with explicit gates and stops, a staging-confirmation prompt, staged-content validation via 'git diff --cached --quiet', branch handling on 'blocked'/'proposal'/'bypass_message', contract-violation handling for an unexpected 'proposal' in bypass mode, and distinct failure layouts for the destructive commit operation. Validation checkpoints and error-recovery behavior are present throughout.

Progressive Disclosure

Good structure: control flow lives in SKILL.md while the phase, output layouts, and message style are split into real reference files, with clear read-timing guidance ('Read... before running the phase, not after'). Minor gap: 'references/commit-message-style.md' is only reachable two levels deep via atomic-commit.md and is never signaled from SKILL.md, so references are not purely one-level-deep.

Specificity

'Analyze staged changes' and 'run the regular or explicit bypass commit workflow' name the domain and 1-2 concrete actions, but the description never states what the workflow produces (proposal-only messages vs. exactly one executed commit), so it falls short of the 'several specific actions' anchor at 4.

Completeness

The 'what' is clear (analyze staged changes, run the commit workflow), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance anywhere in the description, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines.

Trigger Term Quality

'staged changes', 'commit', and 'bypass' are relevant keywords, but common natural phrases users would say — 'commit message', 'atomic commits', 'git commit', 'oneshot', 'skip' — are absent, leaving keyword coverage short of anchor 4.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The regular-vs-bypass commit workflow framing carves a mostly distinct niche with minor overlap risk against generic commit-message helpers; it lacks the distinct enumerated trigger phrases of anchor 5, so it sits at 4 rather than 5, and is clearly above the vague overlap of anchor 3.