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88%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 an exemplary lean debugging procedure: tight, concrete, and sequenced with real validation and a premise-checking feedback loop. Its only weaknesses are small — an implicit binary name, no example commands, and an inline external doc pointer.
Suggestions
Name the executable in step 1 (e.g., "fallow check --format json --quiet") and give one example reproduce-command skeleton to make guidance fully copy-paste ready.
Move the docs/development/quality-gates.md pointer into a clearly signaled reference (or verify it exists at that path) so the single external link is navigable rather than buried mid-step.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | About 25 lines with no padding and no explanation of concepts Claude already knows; even asides like "A release build adds a slow LTO link and gives the same findings" are project-specific facts that earn their tokens, matching the lean anchor exactly. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete commands and specifics are present ("--format json --quiet", "cargo build -p fallow-cli", cleared ".fallow/" cache, "3 to 5 ranked hypotheses"), but the executable name in step 1 is implicit and no example command or fixture format is given, leaving minor gaps. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | An 8-step sequence with explicit validation checkpoints (reproduce before changing code, a regression test that must fail without the fix, old-versus-new comparison on a real consumer) and an error-recovery loop ("After 3 failed fixes, stop and write down the premise that they share"). | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The short self-contained body is well organized as a single procedure, but its sole external pointer ("docs/development/quality-gates.md") is embedded mid-step rather than clearly signaled, and no references/ bundle exists to verify it — a minor organization gap rather than a fully clean structure. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |