Content
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.
A strongly actionable, well-sequenced orchestration skill with copy-paste commands, explicit stop-on-failure checkpoints, timeouts, and a bounded retry policy. Its weaknesses are redundancy (the dynamic-port point is made four times, and Key Design Decisions duplicates phase content) and one genuine workflow contradiction between the no-polling instruction and the file-polling design note.
Suggestions
State the dynamic-port/no-port-passing rule once (in Phase 3) and delete the repetitions in the Test Map note and Key Design Decisions to reclaim tokens.
Resolve the polling contradiction: pick one policy (wait for completion notifications only, reading output_file solely on the 20-minute timeout) and align the Key Design Decisions section with it.
Move the "Boolean values must be JSON booleans" note into the per-suite test skills where test assertions are actually written, since the orchestrator never sets components itself.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The "ports are dynamic / sub-agents don't need ports" point is repeated four times (Test Map note, Phase 3, and twice under Key Design Decisions), the Key Design Decisions section restates Phase 3–4 content, and "Boolean values must be JSON booleans" is a test-authoring detail that belongs in the sub-skills. Mostly efficient, but several sections could be tightened — matching anchor 3 rather than 4, where over-explanation would be only minor. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Every phase supplies copy-paste-ready commands ("node scripts/test-prep.mjs install", "node scripts/test-servers.mjs start/ports/stop", "pnpm build:tgz"), a verbatim sub-agent prompt template with substitution placeholders, and a concrete retry policy with explicit limits. Fully executable guidance covering the common cases; not 4, as there are no real gaps in executable detail. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Phase 1–7 sequence is clearly ordered with explicit checkpoints ("All must succeed. **Stop on failure.**", 60s server-readiness timeout, 20-minute hard timeout, retry limits, troubleshooting section). However, Phase 5's "**Do NOT poll, do NOT run bash commands to check output files**" directly contradicts Key Design Decisions' "Use `Read` tool on the output_file to check progress", and Phase 5 says to "proceed to Phase 7" without routing through Phase 6's retry decision — matching anchor 4 (minor gaps), not 5. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is a single self-contained file with well-organized sections (Test Map, phases, design decisions, troubleshooting), and its references to the per-test SKILL.md files are clearly signaled in the Test Map table. Good structure with minor organization gaps — at ~250 lines, content like the troubleshooting section and sub-agent prompt template could arguably live in separate files; not 5, but comfortably above anchor 3's 'content that should be separate is inline'. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |