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 procedure with genuinely strong verification and error-recovery steps — both actionability and workflow clarity are top-tier. The costs are verbosity from restating the core rule across multiple sections and a monolithic single-file structure that inlines content which could live in reference files.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repetition of the same-message rule: state it once in 'The rule' and let the Contract and Anti-Patterns sections reference it rather than restate it, trimming the body substantially.
Split stable detail — the Dedup boundary map, the token-security note, and the gbrain error-code handling — into a references/ file (e.g., references/edge-cases.md) linked from the relevant sections, moving the skill toward a lean overview plus one-level-deep references.
Verify or bundle the externally referenced files (../_output-rules.md, ../conventions/brain-first.md, scripts/brain-commit-push.sh) so the skill is self-contained when distributed outside its home repo.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly information-dense, but the same-message rule is restated across at least four sections ('The rule', 'Contract', 'Anti-Patterns', 'Output Format'), and passages like 'The most common link bug is committing a brain page and forcing the user to go find it' restate the opening. Fits 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened' rather than the minor-trim level 4. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable, copy-paste-ready guidance: the exact derivation command 'cd "$(dirname <file>)" && git ls-files --full-name "$(basename <file>)"', a complete curl verification with a 200-only rule, an ordered three-step fallback chain, a ready-to-paste subagent prompt blockquote, and concrete output-format examples. Not 4: no gaps in covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The push-before-link sequence is numbered with explicit validation ('the command must exit 0 and print "pushed <sha> to origin/<branch>"') and error-recovery feedback loops ('retry once on commit_lock_busy; stop and tell the user on integrate_conflict or writer_coordinator_required'). This is a reporting workflow rather than a destructive/batch one, so no validation cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-sectioned with clear headers and clearly signaled cross-skill references at the top, but it is a single ~245-line monolith: the Dedup boundaries, token-security detail, gbrain error handling, and output examples are all inline rather than split into references, and the referenced paths (../_output-rules.md, scripts/brain-commit-push.sh) exist outside the skill bundle with no bundled files to back them. Fits 'some structure but could be better organized; content that should be separate is inline'. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |