Content
73%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, process-oriented skill body with excellent workflow sequencing (explicit VERIFY scene, failure recovery, exit criteria, checklist) and mostly concrete, actionable guidance. Its weaknesses are structural redundancy across scheduling/dependencies/references sections and delegation of executable detail to resource files that cannot be verified in this bundle.
Suggestions
Merge the near-duplicate "Intent signature" and "When to use" sections, and consolidate "Dependencies" into the "References" list to remove the double resource listing.
State the "read prior decisions in docs/decisions/" rule once (e.g. in Entry or a single guardrail) instead of repeating it across Entry, the canonical workflow, and guardrails 9-10.
Add one or two concrete checks to the VERIFY scene (e.g. what to confirm about a tradeoff or assumption) so the validation step is less abstract than "check assumptions, validation steps, and fit".
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but contains noticeable structural duplication: "Intent signature" and "When to use" restate the same triggers, "Dependencies" and "References" list overlapping resource files, and the "read prior decisions in docs/decisions/" guidance appears in Entry, the canonical workflow, and guardrails 9-10. This is more than the minor trimming of score 4, but not the padded over-explanation of score 2. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is mostly concrete: six named analysis modes with one-line selection criteria, exact artifact destinations (docs/decisions/, .agents/results/architecture/), explicit guardrails ("compare at least two genuinely different options", "mark it superseded"), and the concrete `architecture.adr-complete` recording step. Minor gaps remain because templates and method details are delegated to resource files not present in this bundle. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Structural Flow gives a clear Entry -> PREPARE/ACQUIRE/REASON/VERIFY/FINALIZE -> Exit sequence with an explicit VERIFY validation scene, a failure-and-recovery section providing feedback loops (request missing context, diagnostic mode on vague requests, synthesize conflicts), defined success/partial-success exit criteria, and a referenced pre-handoff checklist. This matches the anchor with explicit validation steps, error-recovery loops, and a checklist. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview that delegates method details to one-level-deep, purpose-annotated references ("resources/execution-protocol.md for workflow", "resources/methodology-selection.md for method choice"). Minor gaps: resources are listed twice in separate Dependencies and References sections with overlapping entries, and no bundle files are present here to verify the referenced paths resolve. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |