Content
65%Reviews 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-sequenced, actionable onboarding walkthrough with concrete OpenSpec commands and templates, but it carries teaching-style padding and keeps everything inline with no validation checkpoints for the code-mutating steps.
Suggestions
Add a verification checkpoint in Phase 9 (Apply), e.g. run the project's tests or 'openspec verify --change <name>' before archiving, to satisfy the workflow_clarity feedback-loop expectation.
Tighten or remove concept restatements (e.g. the 'elevator pitch' and 'WHEN/THEN makes requirements testable' asides) and the decorative ASCII-box placeholder to improve conciseness.
Consider moving the command reference table and the artifact templates into a referenced reference file to give SKILL.md a leaner overview and improve progressive disclosure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Concrete commands like 'openspec new change "<derived-name>"' and 'openspec archive "<name>"' earn their place, but explanatory asides such as 'Specs define **what** we're building in precise, testable terms' and decorative ASCII boxes restate concepts Claude already knows; it is mostly efficient but could be tightened, matching the score-2 anchor rather than the lean score-3 anchor. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The body provides copy-paste-ready commands ('openspec status --json 2>&1 || echo "NOT_INITIALIZED"', 'openspec instructions proposal --change "<name>" --json') plus concrete proposal/spec/design/tasks templates and specific codebase-scan patterns (TODO/FIXME, ': any', 'console.log'), matching the score-3 anchor of fully executable guidance with specific examples. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The Preflight -> Phase 1-11 sequence is clearly ordered with explicit PAUSE checkpoints and an EXPLAIN/DO/SHOW structure, but the implementation and artifact-saving phases lack validation/verification loops (no 'run tests' or 'confirm save succeeded' step); per the rubric, missing feedback loops for code-mutating/batch operations caps workflow clarity at 2. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | No references/scripts/assets bundle exists, so everything (~520 lines including a full command reference and four artifact templates) lives inline in SKILL.md; sections are well-organized, but content that could be split out (e.g. the command reference table) is inline with no signaled one-level-deep references, matching the score-2 anchor rather than the score-3 clear-overview-with-references pattern. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |