Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The skill is highly actionable with a clear, validated workflow and strong worked examples. It loses points mainly on token efficiency (redundant benefit/anti-pattern explanations) and progressive disclosure (signaled reference files that are absent from the bundle).
Suggestions
Remove the redundant "Why Split Stories?" list and merge the "Anti-Patterns (What This Is NOT)" and "Common Pitfalls" sections so each anti-pattern is stated once; the Purpose block also duplicates the frontmatter intent verbatim and can be cut.
Create the referenced bundle files (template.md and examples/sample.md) or move the inline 8-pattern catalog and Step 3 template into them, so the signaled navigation actually resolves and the body becomes a true overview.
Tighten the per-pattern blocks to the "Ask / Example" pair only, dropping restated definitions Claude already knows about horizontal vs. vertical slicing.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body carries genuine procedural value (8 patterns with worked examples, a validation checklist) but is padded: the Purpose section repeats the intent verbatim, "Why Split Stories?" explains benefits Claude already knows, and the "Anti-Patterns" and "Common Pitfalls" sections duplicate the same horizontal-slicing/meaningless-split material — fitting "mostly efficient but could be tightened" rather than the lean anchor. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Each pattern ships concrete before/after user-story examples, Step 3 gives a copy-ready fill-in story template, and Step 4 provides a specific 5-question validation checklist; per the instruction-skill scoring note, the absence of code is not penalized when guidance is this concrete. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The four steps are clearly sequenced (identify → apply patterns in order, stop on match → write stories → validate), and Step 4 is an explicit checklist with a feedback loop ("If any answer is 'no,' revise"), matching the clear-sequence-with-validation anchor; story splitting is not a destructive/batch operation, so the workflow-clarity cap does not apply. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Sections are well organized and references are signaled ("Use template.md", "See examples/sample.md"), but those referenced files do not exist in the bundle and the 8-pattern catalog plus the template live inline in a ~300-line body — "content that should be separate is inline" with broken navigation keeps it at 2 rather than the clean one-level-deep anchor. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |