Content
75%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 strong, highly actionable skill document: exact commands, explicit contracts, a defined output format, and genuine failure-handling guidance. Its main weaknesses are moderate redundancy and version-stamped detail that cost token efficiency, plus a slightly tangential email-reply subsection.
Suggestions
Merge 'Citation in Briefings' into the Contract section and drop the 'Tools Used' section (it duplicates the frontmatter tools list) to tighten conciseness.
Move version-specific detail like 'Hot memory pulse (v0.32)' into a changelog or deprecation-style section so time-sensitive numbers don't burden the working instructions.
Extract 'GBrain-Native Context Loading' into a reference file and remove or relocate the 'Before an email reply' subsection, which is outside the briefing workflow.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly dense and actionable, but includes redundancy (the citation rule appears in both the Contract and Citation in Briefings sections, and Tools Used repeats the frontmatter tool list) and time-sensitive version detail ('Hot memory pulse (v0.32)') that the guidelines penalize outside a deprecation section. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable: copy-paste-ready commands with flags ('gbrain salience --days 7', 'gbrain recall --since-last-run --supersessions --pending --rollup --json', 'gbrain whois <email> --json'), a concrete output template with placeholders, and worked citation examples cover the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The pre-briefing pulls (0a-0e), Phases 1-6, and output template give a clear sequence, and the 'When it fails' section supplies error-recovery loops (retry after sync, ship remaining sections and name the missing one). It falls short of 5 due to minor gaps: the 'Before an email reply' subsection is tangential to the briefing workflow, and 'get_health' is referenced in Tools Used but absent from the frontmatter tools list. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Sections are well-organized with clear headers and clearly signaled one-level cross-references (skills/_brain-filing-rules.md, ../conventions/agent-operator-protocol.md); however, the ~200-line body inlines multi-part material such as 'GBrain-Native Context Loading' that could live in a reference file, and no bundle files are provided to verify the referenced paths, leaving minor organization gaps. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |