Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured, highly actionable academic-prose skill with clear sequencing, explicit audit/re-run feedback loops, and properly externalized one-level references. Its main weakness is redundancy: the four protocols are restated across the Scenes, Actions, Canonical path, and Guardrails, inflating the token budget without adding new guidance.
Suggestions
Consolidate the four-protocol description into one canonical section (e.g., Scenes) and have the Actions table and Canonical workflow path reference it rather than restating it, cutting roughly 30-40 lines of repetition.
The full banned-verb list and word-length/dash/semicolon thresholds appear in the Guardrails and overlap with the referenced academic-verb-tiers.md and sentence-structure-reference.md; keep only the operative short list inline and defer the full corpus to the reference file.
Verify the referenced bundle files actually exist at resources/*.md and ../_shared/core/*.md, since none are present in this review bundle; missing reference targets would break the progressive-disclosure design.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body avoids concept-padding Claude already knows, but at ~170 lines it restates the four protocols across the Scenes, the Actions table, the Canonical workflow path, and the Guardrails, so it could be tightened. Not the level-3 'every token earns its place' bar, but well above the verbose level-1 anchor. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill it gives concrete executable guidance: a banned-verb list, word-length bands (8-15/16-25/26-40), em-dash <=1 and semicolon <=2/1000w limits, the four-sentence-type protocol, Topic-Support-Conclude, and a Claim-Evidence Map, satisfying the 'concrete specific guidance' bar for instruction skills. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear five-scene sequence plus a Canonical workflow path, with explicit validation feedback loops (VERIFY audit, 're-run audit'), a failure-and-recovery retry table, and a read-aloud checkpoint before emit, matching the 'clear sequence with explicit validation steps; feedback loops' anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The SKILL.md body is an overview that signals one-level-deep references (resources/anti-ai-checklist.md, sentence-structure-reference.md, academic-verb-tiers.md, hedging-guide.md, _shared/core/*) collected in a References section, matching the 'clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references' anchor. Note: the referenced files are not present in this review bundle, but the structural design itself is sound. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |