Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is highly actionable with real codex commands and flags, well-sequenced workflows with validation checkpoints and error-recovery feedback loops, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure to four verified reference files. Its main weakness is conciseness: a generic Best Practices section and repeated danger-full-access warnings add tokens that don't earn their place.
Suggestions
Trim or remove the 'Best Practices' section (Speed/Scope/Quality) — items like 'Make reasonable assumptions', 'Follow existing code patterns and conventions', and 'Run relevant tests after making changes' are things Claude already knows and add no codex-specific value.
Consolidate the danger-full-access guidance into one place (e.g., the Operating Modes entry) and reference it from the other sections instead of restating the full warning in Security & Trust Boundaries, Core Principles, and When to Interrupt.
Replace the generic five-step Execution Workflow (Parse/Plan/Execute/Verify/Report) with codex-specific steps, or fold it into the existing mode-selection and long-running guidance to avoid restating generic project hygiene.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is operationally dense and avoids explaining basics Claude already knows, but the generic 'Best Practices' section ('Make reasonable assumptions', 'Follow existing code patterns', 'Run relevant tests') restates knowledge Claude already has, and the danger-full-access warning is repeated across Security, Core Principles, Operating Modes, and When to Interrupt — so it is mostly efficient but could be tightened rather than fully lean. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Commands are concrete and copy-paste ready — 'codex exec --full-auto "..."', 'codex exec review --uncommitted', 'codex exec -i mockup.png --full-auto "..."', 'codex exec resume --last "..."' — with specific flags and gotchas like '< /dev/null' for non-TTY hangs, matching the fully-executable anchor rather than the pseudocode anchor at 2. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Sub-workflows are clearly sequenced with explicit checkpoints and feedback loops: the numbered Error Handling cases (auth failure → stop and report; unparseable JSON → show raw + error; non-blocking → continue and report), the review-handling STOP-before-editing gate, and the scope-estimation decision for long runs — matching the clear-sequence-with-validation anchor rather than the sequence-with-gaps anchor at 2. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | A 'Reference Files' section signals four one-level-deep references with 'Read this when…' triggers (cli-reference.md, prompting-patterns.md, review-workflows.md, examples.md), all of which exist on disk alongside assets/review-output.schema.json, matching the clear-overview-with-well-signaled-references anchor rather than the inline-could-be-split anchor at 2. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |