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.
A highly actionable, well-sequenced workflow with concrete commands and real validation checkpoints for its destructive operations. The chief weakness is conciseness — Anti-Patterns and Contract sections restate guidance already embedded in the steps — and the absence of any bundle files means a long single-file body with no offloading reference.
Suggestions
Collapse the Anti-Patterns section: each anti-pattern already maps to a Step 6 rule, so replace the prose list with a one-line 'see Step 6' pointer or merge them as a negative column in the Step 5 classification table.
Move the Severity Tiers and Recurring Error Patterns tables into a references/ file (e.g. patterns.md) referenced once from the body, shrinking the always-loaded SKILL.md toward an overview.
Add an explicit 'if the read-back does not match the user's words, redo the --set step before --confirm' feedback loop to the SOUL_USER_ERROR fix so error recovery is stated, not implied.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and domain-specific (no generic concepts Claude already knows), but several sections are noticeably redundant — the Anti-Patterns block restates Step 6 rules (don't edit SOUL.md directly, don't fix only memory, re-sync after repo edits) and the Contract restates the step guarantees, which could be trimmed. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands with flags and provenance throughout ('gbrain search', 'grep -ri', 'gbrain recall --grep', 'gbrain forget <fact-id>', 'gbrain remember ... --provenance', 'gbrain bootstrap interview --set/--confirm', 'gbrain bootstrap render --force'), covering the common error classes concretely. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Eight steps are explicitly ordered with a classification decision gate (Step 5) and verification checkpoints (Step 7 propagation grep, the bootstrap read-back/--confirm hash ritual, Step 8 report); because validation is present the destructive cap does not apply, though error-recovery feedback loops are mostly implicit rather than spelled out. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files ship with the skill, but the body is well-sectioned and delegates detail to sibling skills via clearly signaled one-level references ('The full interview discipline ... lives in skills/soul-audit/SKILL.md — route through it'); minor gap is that long ancillary tables (Severity Tiers, Recurring Patterns) stay inline in a ~250-line file with no reference file to offload them. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |