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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 well-structured, highly executable QA playbook: exact build and CLI commands, explicit per-flow verification criteria, and a failure-modes checklist that anticipates real pitfalls. All dimensions land at 4 due to consistent minor gaps — undefined shell variables in the interaction section, no explicit recovery step when a Verify fails, and a flow menu that could be split into a reference file. It is a strong skill with no serious structural defects.
Suggestions
Trim the driver-mechanics detail in the interaction section (snapshot placement, command-position rules) now delegated to droid-control, keeping only the Zipper-specific requirements such as the env -u CI prefix and APP_EXIT:$? marker.
Add one line of error-recovery guidance for failed positive flows, e.g. "If a Verify step fails on a positive flow, re-run once, record the observed output in Notes, and report the flow as failing rather than omitting it."
Move the 12-flow menu details into a references/flows.md file (keeping a one-line-per-flow menu in SKILL.md) so the orchestrator's overview stays lean as flows are added.
Define $TCTL and $session, or replace them with the literal tctl invocation, so the interaction snippet is copy-paste executable.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and imperative with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows — every flow is a command plus expected outcomes. It is anchor 4 rather than 5 because the interaction section states "Droid Control owns driver mechanics, Capture, and Verify" yet then details driver mechanics (snapshot timing, command position, env prefixing) that could partly live in the delegated skill, and repeats the 'only via Droid Control' rule twice. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Nearly every flow gives a copy-paste-ready invocation with exact flags (e.g. "--type pdf --count 20 --output-path ./qa-results/$RUN_ID/data/standard") plus concrete expected values ("exactly 20 PDF Native Files", "CASE00000001 through CASE00000003", tolerance "0.0031 relative deviation"), and the build command is complete. Minor gaps keep it at anchor 4 rather than 5: "$TCTL" and "$session" are used but never defined here, flow 7 describes the Source CSV by column name without a literal example, and flow 10 uses placeholder paths like "<prior-dir>". | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear sequence (set RUN_ID → build when affected → choose flows → run via routed terminal → verify → capture evidence) with explicit per-flow "Verify..." checkpoints and a nine-item Known Failure Modes checklist; verification steps are present, so the batch-operation cap at 3 does not apply. It falls short of anchor 5 because there is no feedback loop for error recovery — nothing says what to do when a positive flow's Verify step fails beyond putting evidence in Notes. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Scored against the actual bundle: a single well-organized SKILL.md (~107 lines) with clear sections (Target and interaction, Build and workspace, numbered 12-flow menu, Known Failure Modes) and no nested or dead references. It does not reach anchor 5 because it exceeds the sub-50-line simple-skill threshold and the detailed 12-flow menu — the bulk of the file — is a candidate for a one-level-deep references file that would keep the SKILL.md overview leaner. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |