Content
71%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, actionable brainstorming skill with good progressive disclosure and a clear five-phase workflow. Its main weakness is conciseness: the Overview and Core Principles restate concepts and behaviors Claude already knows, inflating the token budget without adding skill-specific value.
Suggestions
Cut the Overview restatement of the description and replace the generic Core Principles (Curious, Challenging, Domain-Aware) with skill-specific guidance, or remove them entirely.
Trim the large blocks of sample questions in each phase to one or two exemplars, trusting Claude to generate similar prompts from the named technique.
Add an explicit checkpoint between Phase 2 and Phase 3 (e.g., 'Summarize the generated ideas before connecting them') to lift workflow clarity toward 5.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The Overview restates the description and the Core Principles ('Intellectually Curious', 'Creatively Challenging') state behaviors Claude already applies, adding coaching padding; the material stays focused and usable but could be tightened substantially. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Each phase names concrete techniques (Cross-Domain Analogies, Assumption Reversal, Scale Shifting, Morphological analysis, TRIZ) with example prompts, and the literature-matrix section lists specific comparison axes, though as an instruction-only skill there is no executable code or verbatim step sequence. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Five well-sequenced phases with explicit transitions and adaptive branches form a clear conversational workflow; it lacks the explicit validation checkpoints shown in the anchor-5 example, but no destructive/batch operations are involved so the cap-3 rule does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a concise overview with a single one-level-deep reference, references/brainstorming_methods.md, clearly signaled in both the workflow and a dedicated Resources section; the referenced file exists on disk. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |