Content
87%Weight 40%Scale 1-3Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A concise, highly actionable dev guide with executable verification gates and well-organized sections. Its main gap is workflow clarity: constraints and a validation gate are present but not assembled into an explicit end-to-end change sequence with feedback loops.
Suggestions
Add a short numbered change workflow (e.g. 1. make change, 2. run the Verify gate, 3. fix and re-run until clean, 4. bump protocol version if payload changed) so the existing rules and gate form an explicit sequence.
Add a feedback loop after the Verify section: what to do when `go vet`/`sh -n` fails (fix and re-run, do not proceed) to lift workflow clarity to level 3.
Make the protocol-versioning release coupling a mini-checklist (bump AgentProtocolVersion + collector minimum + ship in one commit) rather than a prose rule, so the multi-step contract is sequenced.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Lean and dense with substance — concrete file paths, commands, and constraints — without explaining concepts Claude already knows (e.g. what Go or systemd is). Every section earns its tokens. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides copy-paste-ready executable commands (go vet/build/test, sh -n syntax gate, curl timeout flags, git tag/release flow) and exact file paths, fully meeting the level-3 anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | An explicit Verify validation gate exists, but the body is organized as rules plus a gate rather than a clearly sequenced change workflow with feedback loops for error recovery, so it sits at level 2 rather than 3. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Under 50 lines, single-purpose, and well-organized into sections (Layout, Verify, Hard rules, Release) with one-level-deep pointers to repo docs (docs/agent/release.en.md, deep-review note), matching the simple-skill allowance for level 3. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |