Content
85%Scale 1-3Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a strong, well-architected skill that serves as an effective routing layer for diagram generation. Its workflow is clearly sequenced, references are well-organized, and constraints are specific and actionable. The main weakness is verbosity in Steps 4 and 7, where guidance on gathering context and file reuse could be significantly tightened without losing clarity.
Suggestions
Condense Step 4 ('Garbage in, garbage out') to ~3-4 bullet points — Claude already knows how to gather context from available tools, code, and users; a brief reminder to verify information before diagramming suffices.
Tighten Step 7's file-reuse section; the explanation of how fileKey works and the side-by-side vs replace decision could be reduced to a compact list.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is mostly efficient and well-structured, but Step 4 ('Garbage in, garbage out') is notably verbose with extensive enumeration of context sources that Claude already understands (reading source code, asking users clarifying questions, using available tools). This section could be cut significantly. Step 7's file-reuse guidance is also somewhat wordy. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides highly concrete, actionable guidance: specific parameter names for the tool call, exact node ID conventions (camelCase), specific error messages to expect, precise routing table for diagram types, and clear examples of label quoting syntax like `A["Process (main)"]`. The constraints are copy-paste ready and unambiguous. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit decision points (Step 1: should you use the tool at all? Step 2: which type? Step 5: hybrid needed?). Validation is addressed through the 2-attempt cap with explicit fallback guidance, and the hybrid workflow has clear signals for when to deploy vs skip. Feedback loops are present (iterate with fileKey, ask user preferences). | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Excellent progressive disclosure: the SKILL.md serves as a clear routing overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references to type-specific guides (architecture.md, flowchart.md, sequence.md, erd.md, state.md, gantt.md, workflow.md). Each reference is contextually placed at the exact decision point where it's needed, and paths are consistently formatted as relative links. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |