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 is highly actionable and workflow clarity is excellent, with concrete templates, a complete worked example, verification checkpoints, and stuck-recovery guidance. Its weaknesses are token inefficiency from template/example duplication and marketing padding, and heavy inlining of material that belongs in separate reference files.
Suggestions
Move the generic phase-by-phase prompt template and the REST API worked example into references/ files (e.g., references/template.md and references/example.md), keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview with well-signaled one-level-deep pointers.
Cut the "Real-World Success" and "Ralph Philosophy" sections; the anecdotal cost figures add tokens without improving execution of the skill.
De-duplicate the worked example against the generic template: the example repeats the same phase/checkpoint structure, so keep only the phases that show something the template doesn't (e.g., curl-based verification and non-goals).
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~300-line generic phase template (Phases 0-5) structurally duplicates the ~185-line worked REST API example, and the "Real-World Success" section ("$50k contract completed for $297 in API costs") plus "Ralph Philosophy" commentary are padding that doesn't help execute the skill. Not 1 because it avoids explaining basic concepts Claude already knows; not 3 because the duplication and marketing content go beyond 'some unnecessary explanation'. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable throughout: copy-paste Quick Start prompt template, a complete worked example with runnable commands ("TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST ... | jq -r '.token')"), concrete integration command ("/ralph-wiggum:ralph-loop \"[paste generated prompt]\" --completion-promise ... --max-iterations 100"), and binary milestone examples ("Project builds without errors"). Bracketed placeholders are inherent and justified for a template-generation skill, and the worked example covers the common case concretely. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 4-step generation workflow ("Step 1: Define Project Scope" through "Step 4: Structure the Prompt") is clearly sequenced, each phase embeds verification commands, milestones are required to be "Binary (complete or not)", and the "If Stuck" section provides an explicit error-recovery feedback loop ("Do NOT output false promise - continue or wait for max-iterations"). Not 4 because checkpoints, validation, and recovery guidance are all explicit. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, and ~440 lines of the phase template plus the full worked example are inlined in SKILL.md when they clearly belong in separate reference files (e.g., references/TEMPLATE.md, references/EXAMPLE.md); the pointer to sibling skills ("For single-task prompts, see `ralph-prompt-single-task`") references other skills, not bundle files. Not 2 because section structure with headers and tables is well-organized rather than minimal; not 4 because content that should be separate is entirely inline. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |