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75%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 well-structured, actionable incident-response workflow with clear sequencing, timebounds, and checklists. The main weakness is vague filler in the Step 4 opener ('do stuff to follow up') and an implicit rather than explicit rollback failure-recovery loop.
Suggestions
Replace the vague Step 4 opener 'do stuff to follow up. Things like writing a postmortem, scheduling a review, etc.' with a direct instruction, since the concrete checklist already follows.
Make the rollback feedback loop explicit, e.g. 'If error rates do not return to baseline after rollback, consider the next most recent change and re-validate before declaring contained.'
Trim redundant sentences like 'Don't worry about root cause yet. Mitigation comes first.' to tighten the token budget.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly lean and well-organized with checklists, but padded filler like 'do stuff to follow up. Things like writing a postmortem, scheduling a review, etc.' and 'Don't worry about root cause yet. Mitigation comes first.' could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, actionable guidance — timeframes ('within 5 minutes', 'every 15 minutes'), named files (`#inc-<short-name>`, `POSTMORTEM_TEMPLATE.md`), and ready checklists — but the Step 4 intro ('do stuff to follow up') is vague before the concrete checklist rescues it. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear four-step sequence (Triage → Mitigate → Communicate → Resolve) with an explicit validation checkpoint ('Confirm error rates and latency return to baseline before declaring the incident contained') and checklists, but the rollback recovery loop is implicit rather than a spelled-out 'if validation fails, do X' branch. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized into labeled steps with clearly signaled one-level-deep references to `STATUS_UPDATE_TEMPLATE.md` and `POSTMORTEM_TEMPLATE.md`; minor gap is the inlined postmortem outline and template files that are instructed to be created rather than bundled. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |