Content
70%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 lays out a well-sequenced, validated multi-phase workflow with concrete commands and code, but it is padded with heavy ASCII diagrams and suffers from broken reference navigation (2 of 3 referenced files missing).
Suggestions
Create the missing references/STATE-MACHINE.md and references/TROUBLESHOOTING.md (or remove the dangling links) so signaled navigation is not broken.
Replace the large ASCII 'How It Works' and 'Multi-Session Workflow' box diagrams with concise prose or a compact list to reduce token padding.
Add concrete script invocations (e.g., `python scripts/master_orchestrator.py ...`) alongside the script listing so the orchestration entry points are directly executable.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient with clear sections, but the large ASCII box diagrams ("How It Works", "Multi-Session Workflow", "Skill Dependencies" tree) and restating of TDD's RED/GREEN/REFACTOR are padding that could be tightened into prose. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete command syntax with examples ("autonomous start: [spec]"), a real `detect_state()` Python function, and a concrete config JSON; minor gaps include no actual `python scripts/...` invocation examples for the orchestrator scripts. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The four phases are clearly sequenced with explicit validation (VERIFY runs E2E tests), checkpoints for rollback, and feedback loops for error recovery (FAIL → attempt recovery → rollback/skip), matching the top anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure is reasonable and one-level-deep references are signaled, but two of three referenced files (STATE-MACHINE.md, TROUBLESHOOTING.md) do not exist and bulk content (diagrams, dependency tree) is inlined rather than split out. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |