Content
77%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.
The body is a highly actionable, well-sequenced instruction set with genuine validation feedback loops — the workflow and actionability are exemplary for a command-style skill. Its weaknesses are structural and redundancy-related: a ~40-line hook protocol duplicated verbatim for the before and after cases, an inlined 35-line checklist template, and no reference files at all to keep the overview lean.
Suggestions
Factor the near-identical before_specify/after_specify hook-processing blocks into a single shared section or a references/hooks.md file, parameterized by the hook key.
Move the full specification quality checklist template out of SKILL.md into references/quality-checklist-template.md and reference it in one line, keeping the main body as an overview.
Trim over-explanations of things Claude already knows, such as the markdown table-formatting bullet points in step 7.4.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Most content is task-specific instruction Claude cannot infer (resolution order, hook output formats), but the ~40-line extension-hook protocol is duplicated nearly verbatim for before_specify and after_specify, the 35-line checklist template is inlined wholesale, and sections like 'Ensure markdown tables are properly formatted... pipes aligned' over-explain what Claude already knows. This fits 'Mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened' rather than 2, whose bar is several padded explanatory sections. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully concrete and executable: exact paths (`.specify/extensions.yml`, `.specify/templates/spec-template.md`, `.specify/feature.json` with a copy-paste JSON snippet), copy-paste hook output blocks, an explicit SPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY resolution order, a ready-to-use checklist template, and worked examples (short-name derivation, good/bad success criteria). Not 4 because there are no meaningful gaps — the common cases are covered with specific, ready-to-use material. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 9-step flow is clearly sequenced with an explicit validation checkpoint (Specification Quality Validation), a feedback loop (update spec → re-run validation, max 3 iterations, warn user if still failing), a checklist for the complex process, and clarification question handling with a defined format and cap. This matches the top anchor: clear sequence, explicit validation steps, error-recovery loops, and checklists. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body has good section structure and clear internal navigation, but it is a 347-line monolith with no bundle files at all: the duplicated hook protocol and the full checklist template clearly belong in reference files (e.g. references/hooks.md, references/quality-checklist.md). This fits 'Some structure but could be better organized; content that should be separate is inline'; not 4 because well over a hundred lines of reference material is inlined in SKILL.md. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |