Content
73%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 highly actionable and workflow-clear: concrete templates, worked examples, and explicit response-handling fallbacks make the gate pattern executable as written. Its main weakness is redundancy — the Contract's rules are restated across Constraints, How To Gate, Anti-Patterns, and Output Format, so roughly a third of the file could be cut without losing information — plus one dangling external reference.
Suggestions
Collapse the redundant sections: delete Constraints (all four bullets duplicate the Contract) and Output Format (duplicates the How To Present Choices template), folding any unique rationale into the Contract or Anti-Patterns.
State each core rule once in the Contract and let Anti-Patterns carry only the rationale/why, so "2-4 options" and "stop the turn" are not repeated verbatim in three or four places.
Fix or inline the dangling ../conventions/agent-operator-protocol.md reference — either ship the file in the bundle or summarize the relevant error-handling steps directly in SKILL.md.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The core rules are restated three to four times across sections: "2-4 options (no more — decision paralysis...)" (Contract), "2-4 options max. More than 4 creates decision paralysis." (Constraints), and "More than 4 options. Decision paralysis is real." (Anti-Patterns); "stop the turn" appears in Contract, How To Gate ("you MUST stop your turn"), and Output Format; and the choice-message template appears nearly verbatim in both How To Present Choices and Output Format. This is noticeably verbose with padded duplicate sections (Constraints and Output Format add almost no new information), beyond the 'could be tightened' midpoint; not a 1 because nothing explains concepts Claude already knows and all content is on-topic. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully copy-paste-ready guidance: three concrete message templates (numbered options, JSON buttons, the clarify tool), ✅/❌ label examples ("Merge — combine with existing page" vs "Option 1"), three complete worked examples (cold-start, filing, destructive operation), and specific response mappings ("the first one" / "A" / "1" → first option; "merge" → fuzzy match). For an instruction-only skill this covers the common cases completely. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The process is clearly sequenced ("1. Present the choices 2. Explicitly stop the current turn 3. The user's response triggers the next turn 4. Read the response and branch accordingly") with explicit feedback loops: "If unclear, ask again", "'actually, none of those' → present alternatives or ask what they want", and "Unrelated message → the user moved on; drop the gate". The skill is itself the validation gate for destructive operations and includes error-recovery paths, so the destructive-operations cap does not apply; the single action is unambiguous. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is well-organized into clear sections with one clearly-signaled, one-level-deep reference ("[agent operator protocol](../conventions/agent-operator-protocol.md)"). However, that reference target does not exist in this bundle (a dangling link), and the single 245-line file is well past the under-50-line simple-skill case, with worked examples and formatting guidance that could live in separate files. Good structure with minor gaps, not a 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |