Content
67%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 skill is a thorough, well-sequenced onboarding tutorial with concrete commands, explicit pause checkpoints, and graceful exit handling. Its main weaknesses are some over-explanation of basic concepts and the lack of an explicit verification step after implementation.
Suggestions
Tighten the EXPLAIN blocks that define what a 'change', proposal, spec, or design is—Claude already understands these concepts and the user-facing narration can carry the teaching.
Add an explicit verification step in Phase 9 (e.g., run tests or `openspec verify` and only mark complete when it passes) to close the workflow-clarity gap.
Consider moving the command-reference tables to a short referenced file so the core tutorial stays leaner.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient with a clear EXPLAIN/DO/SHOW/PAUSE structure, but several EXPLAIN blocks define concepts (what a 'change', proposal, spec, or design is) that pad the skill and could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, real `openspec` commands and exact file paths/templates are provided throughout; the recurring placeholders (`<name>`, `<capability-name>`) the agent must derive are the main minor gap from copy-paste readiness. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 11-phase sequence with explicit PAUSE checkpoints, preflight CLI validation, scope guardrails, and graceful-exit handling; the minor gap is the absence of an explicit test/verify step after the implementation phase. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized into clearly headed phases with no nested or buried references; as a single >50-line file with no external bundle it is well structured, though the command-reference tables and templates could optionally live in a separate reference file. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |