Content
78%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.
Well-structured content with excellent progressive disclosure and a genuinely rigorous validation contract for App resources. The main costs are duplicated App-naming guidance and an only implied general workflow for non-App resources.
Suggestions
Merge the App-naming rules in General Guideline 7 into the 'Required App Completion Contract' section so the CLI version, default, and override rules appear exactly once, removing the duplicated 30-character and domain_friendly_name guidance.
Add a minimal inline databricks.yml skeleton (resources block plus one variable) so the most common task, creating a bundle, has copy-paste-ready structure without opening a reference file.
Sequence the general workflow explicitly (edit YAML, validate strict, deploy, run/monitor) as a short numbered list, rather than relying on guideline 1 plus the deploy-and-run reference to imply the order.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly lean with no padding of concepts Claude already knows, but App-naming rules are duplicated between General Guideline 7 and the 'Required App Completion Contract' section (CLI 0.270.0, domain_friendly_name defaults, 30-char limit stated twice). Not 3 because everything else is tight and earns its place. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete commands ('bundle validate --strict --target <target>', 'databricks bundle validate --strict --target <target> --output json', '.databricks/bundle/<target>/variable-overrides.json') and file naming patterns, but includes no minimal inline databricks.yml example and some guidance stays abstract ('Parameterize catalog, schema, and warehouse'). | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The App Completion Contract is a strong sequence with checklist, explicit validation ('Only after this check, run...'), and a fix-persist-revalidate feedback loop. Falls short of 5 because the general create-to-deploy workflow is only implied via guideline 1 and delegated to references rather than sequenced inline. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A clear overview body with five well-signaled, one-level-deep references, each with a descriptive label; all five referenced files exist and contain no further nested references, and the split of content is appropriate. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |