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71%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 delivers a clear, well-sequenced workflow with mostly concrete, executable guidance and commendable source discipline (citation, claim-vs-inference separation, limitation reporting). The main gaps are the unreferenced and duplicated references/article-template.md, a hardcoded personal absolute script path that breaks the one runnable command, and check-list redundancy that inflates token cost without adding guidance.
Suggestions
Replace the hardcoded "/Users/diego/.codex/skills/paper-interpretation/scripts/extract_paper_assets.py" in the Extraction Workflow command with the relative path "scripts/extract_paper_assets.py" so the command is copy-paste executable wherever the skill is installed.
Reference the existing template explicitly — e.g. under Article Structure, "Use the template in references/article-template.md" — and move the inlined glossary template, 5W1H table, and Mermaid snippet there, removing the duplication between the two sources.
Merge the overlapping Reading Checklist and Output Checklist into a single pre-publish checklist to cut redundant tokens while keeping the requirements enforceable.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient: it instructs only the paper-specific conventions Claude cannot guess (5W1H table, glossary template, citation discipline, save location) without explaining known concepts like what a PDF or Mermaid is. It falls short of anchor 5 because of redundancy across "Reading Checklist", "Article Structure", and "Output Checklist", which restate overlapping requirements that could be consolidated. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is largely executable: a concrete bash invocation of extract_paper_assets.py with its output artifacts (paper.pdf, paper_text.md, paper_tables.md, figures/, manifest.json), plus a filled-in 5W1H table, glossary template, and Mermaid example. It is not anchor 5 because the only runnable command is hardcoded to the author's personal absolute path "python3 /Users/diego/.codex/... /scripts/extract_paper_assets.py" — copy-paste ready only on the original machine, whereas the Intake section correctly uses the relative "scripts/extract_paper_assets.py". | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence is clear — intake (local path or URL) → extraction with a manifest.json of "extraction status and warnings" as a checkpoint → reading checklist → structured writing → save under markdown/ → "report the absolute output path and any extraction limitations". There is a feedback loop ("If the PDF is scanned or extraction is incomplete, use OCR... before writing"), but it is implied rather than an explicit validate→fix→retry step, keeping it below anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is well-sectioned and references the script, but the bundle's references/article-template.md — which mirrors the article structure almost section-for-section — is never mentioned, and roughly 90 lines of templates and structure requirements that duplicate that file are inlined in SKILL.md. This matches anchor 3 ("references present but not clearly signaled; content that should be separate is inline") more than anchor 4, where such duplication would only be a minor organization gap. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |