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75%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 a strong operational skill: fully executable commands, an explicit human-approval checkpoint on every triage decision, and verified bundled scripts with accurate parameter documentation. Its main weaknesses are redundancy — the core "use the scripts, never ad-hoc queries" rule is repeated in four places including a duplicative Common Mistakes table — and no verification step after applying a triage decision.
Suggestions
State the "always use the skill scripts, never ad-hoc GitHub queries" rule once in a single prominent place and remove the repetitions in Step 2, Step 6, and the Common Mistakes table.
Drop or shrink the Common Mistakes table, which restates the inline DON'T blocks nearly verbatim, to reclaim token budget.
Add a verification/feedback step after applying a decision, e.g., confirm the gh issue edit succeeded and re-check the milestone name against session output before moving to the next issue.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Most content is genuinely skill-specific (script paths, exclusion filters, milestone logic) that Claude cannot know, but the "never use ad-hoc queries / always use the scripts" rule is repeated roughly four times (the CRITICAL banner, Step 2's MANDATORY and DON'T blocks, Step 6's DON'T list, and the Common Mistakes table), and the Common Mistakes table restates the inline DON'Ts nearly verbatim — matching anchor 3's "mostly efficient but could be tightened" rather than anchor 2, since no space is spent teaching Claude things it already knows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The body provides copy-paste-ready commands throughout — "pwsh .github/skills/issue-triage/scripts/query-issues.ps1 -Limit 50 -OutputFormat triage", "gh issue edit ISSUE_NUMBER --repo dotnet/maui --milestone \"Backlog\"", a complete issue-presentation template, and a parameter table whose entries (Platform, Area, Limit, Skip, OutputFormat, RequireAreaLabel, SkipDetails) all match the actual bundled script — fully executable and covering the common cases, matching anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The six-step sequence (init → query → present one → wait for decision → next → auto-reload with -Skip) is clearly ordered, and every mutation is gated on explicit user approval (Step 4) with a "NEVER guess or assume milestone names" pre-validation against session output, satisfying the batch-operation validation requirement; the gap keeping it at anchor 4 rather than 5 is the absence of post-edit verification or error recovery (e.g., what to do when gh issue edit fails on an invalid milestone name), and the apply commands live outside the step sequence. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | All three referenced scripts (init-triage-session.ps1, query-issues.ps1, record-triage.ps1) exist in the bundled scripts/ directory, one level deep and clearly signaled with full runnable commands, and sections are well-organized; minor gaps are the two references pointing outside the skill bundle ([issue-triage-labels](../issue-triage-labels/SKILL.md) and [command documentation](../../docs/issue-triage.md)) which cannot be verified within the bundle, matching anchor 4 rather than anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |