Content
72%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 highly actionable, well-disclosed instruction skill: executable commands, explicit error-handling and review-stop checkpoints, and a clean one-level reference bundle. Its weaknesses are repetitive security directives that inflate the token budget and the absence of an explicitly sequenced end-to-end workflow tying the sections together.
Suggestions
Add a short numbered main workflow (verify install → choose sandbox mode → size the task → run sync/background → present results) so the happy-path sequence is explicit rather than implied by section order; the current 'Execution Workflow' section only covers session resume.
Consolidate the repeated sandbox/danger-full-access rules stated in 'Security & Trust Boundaries', 'Core Principles', and 'Operating Modes' into one canonical statement referenced elsewhere, cutting roughly 15-20 lines of duplicated directives.
State the mode-selection rule once as a compact decision table (read-only vs --full-auto vs danger-full-access with consent conditions) instead of restating it across three sections.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient imperative guidance with no padding about what Codex is, but several directives are repeated across sections: never escalate the sandbox appears in 'Security & Trust Boundaries' and 'Core Principles'; danger-full-access consent rules appear three times (lines 17, 67 area, and When to Interrupt); review-stop rules appear in both 'Handling Review Results' and 'When to Interrupt'. Fits 'mostly efficient but could be tightened'; not 4 because the duplication is more than minor trimming. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands covering the common cases: 'codex exec --full-auto "implement..."', 'codex exec review --uncommitted', 'codex exec resume --last "<delta>"', 'codex exec ... 2>&1 | tee /tmp/codex-<slug>.log', '< /dev/null', 'git diff --shortstat', plus a concrete failure-handling protocol. Matches the top anchor; nothing missing for typical invocations. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | All workflow phases exist as separate, individually clear sections (verify install, pick mode, run, handle errors, report output), but the happy-path sequence is implicit — there is no explicit ordered walkthrough, and the 'Execution Workflow' section contains only resume advice rather than a workflow. Fits 'sequence present but implicit'; not 4 because the anchor's clear connected sequence with checkpoints is not realized as a coherent main flow. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a genuine overview; four reference files plus the schema asset all exist, are exactly one level deep (no nested references found in them), and each entry carries an explicit 'Read this when...' signal (e.g. 'Read this when the task needs a flag not covered above'). Matches the top anchor; not 4 because no organization gap was found. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |