Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is highly actionable with executable scripts, a gated validation workflow, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure. The main weakness is moderate conciseness overhead from restated guidance and explanatory asides.
Suggestions
Trim restated explanatory asides (e.g. 'The truly minimal version is just SKILL.md...') that a competent model already infers.
Consolidate the frontmatter rules and the YAML skeleton block so the name/description guidance is stated once.
Move the 'Authoring Rules (Non-negotiable)' prose into references/skill-spec.md to keep the entrypoint leaner.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is largely lean (skeletons, copy/paste commands, checklists) but includes some instructional padding a competent model does not need, e.g. 'The truly minimal version is just SKILL.md (you can add references/ later)' and restated frontmatter rules; it is mostly efficient yet could be tightened to level 3. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands such as './scripts/validate-skill.sh skills/<skill-name> --strict' and 'create-skill.sh my-skill --full --output skills', plus concrete copy/paste skeleton and yaml blocks — meeting the level-3 executable-code anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 'Workflow (Material -> Skill)' gives a numbered 1-6 sequence and the Quality Gate + 'validate-skill.sh --strict' step acts as an explicit validation checkpoint with an iterate/retry loop ('run validate-skill.sh --strict and iterate'), matching the level-3 anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is an overview with one-level-deep, well-signaled references ('references/index.md', 'references/skill-spec.md', 'references/quality-checklist.md') that resolve to real files, and long-form detail is split out rather than inlined — matching the level-3 clear-overview anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |