Content
93%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.
The body is an exemplary lean operational skill: fully executable commands, a clear discovery-first workflow with a diagnostic checkpoint, and tight reporting guardrails. The only meaningful gap is that a few failure paths (missing binary outside the repo, empty session stores) have direction but no explicit recovery loop.
Suggestions
Add an explicit fallback step for when the agenttrace binary is missing and the working directory is not the agenttrace repository (e.g., where to install it or how to proceed).
Turn the "no sessions detected" note into a short validate-and-retry loop: run --doctor, report detected directories, then stop or continue based on findings.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~57-line body is pure directive content — commands, thresholds, and reporting rules — with zero concept explanations or padding; every token earns its place, matching anchor 5. It is clearly not anchor 4, which requires some over-explanation to trim, and none is present. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Every step is a copy-paste-ready command ("agenttrace --overview --fail-under-health 80 --fail-on-critical --max-tool-fail-rate 15") including exact CI-gate flags and output paths, matching anchor 5's fully executable coverage of common cases. Nothing is pseudocode or hand-wavy. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The numbered Workflow section sequences discovery, binary fallback ("cargo run -q -p agenttrace --"), output formats, and per-session queries, with a "--doctor" diagnostic checkpoint — matching anchor 4's clear sequence with most checkpoints. It falls short of anchor 5 because error-recovery paths (binary missing and not in the repo, no sessions detected beyond the doctor callout) are implicit rather than explicit feedback loops. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is under 50 lines with no bundle files and no external references; the Workflow / Report Focus / Guardrails sections are well-organized and self-contained, which per the simple-skill scoring note earns a 5. There is nothing buried or inlined that belongs in a separate file. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |