Content
70%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is a well-structured, clearly sequenced skill with a quality-bar checklist and feedback loop for a batch/mutating operation, scoring well on workflow clarity and progressive disclosure. It loses points on conciseness (redundant Invocation re-walk and stub sections for a conformance test) and on actionability (the core enrichment and cross-link steps are described as intent rather than executable commands).
Suggestions
Collapse the "Invocation" section into the pipeline or reference it, since it re-states the same READ→WRITE→CROSS-LINK steps; remove the empty "Contract" and "Output Format" stubs or move their content into the sections they duplicate.
Make the cross-link step executable by giving the concrete gbrain command for adding a back-link rather than the comment "add a timeline back-link".
Drop or relocate the version-specific "v0.25.1" note to avoid time-sensitive detail degrading conciseness.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body mostly assumes Claude's competence and avoids explaining basic concepts, but it carries redundancy (the "Invocation" section re-walks the same pipeline already in "The pipeline") and near-empty "Contract"/"Output Format" stubs that exist only for a conformance test. Not a 3 because those sections and the version-specific "v0.25.1" reference add tokens without user-facing value; not a 1 because the core guidance is lean and concrete. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete commands ("gbrain query 'needs_enrichment: true type:article' --limit 50", "gbrain get media/articles/<slug>") and a precise output spec, but the core ENRICH and cross-link steps are expressed as comments describing intent rather than executable operations, and "add a timeline back-link" lacks a concrete command. Not a 3 because the key transformation step is not copy-paste executable; not a 1 because real gbrain commands and a concrete section template are given. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 6-step pipeline (READ→SCAN→CONTEXT→ENRICH→WRITE→CROSS-LINK) with an explicit quality-bar checklist serving as validation and a spot-check LLM-judge eval as a feedback loop for this batch/mutating operation. Not a 2 because validation checkpoints and the idempotency guard ("check the needs_enrichment flag; skip if already false") are explicitly present. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Content is split into well-organized sections with one-level-deep, clearly signaled references ("[conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md)", "[_brain-filing-rules.md](../_brain-filing-rules.md)"), and a Related skills list; no nested 2+ level reference chains. Not a 2 because references are clearly signaled and appropriately external rather than dumped inline. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |