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70%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 strong operational skill body: exact CLI invocations, a clearly sequenced and validation-gated pipeline, and honest failure handling. Its weaknesses are repetition of the same safety rules across five sections and reliance on dangling out-of-bundle references (D-numbered design IDs, conventions/ paths) that a reader cannot follow.
Suggestions
Resolve the dangling references: either bundle a short reference defining the D3-D17 design decisions or drop the IDs, and replace ../conventions/agent-operator-protocol.md and conventions/quality.md with paths that exist relative to the skill.
State the bundled-skill mutation rule once (e.g. in Iron Law) and cross-reference it from the decision tree, 'When it fails', and Anti-Patterns instead of restating it five times.
Move the judge-strengthening guidance (rule-check vocabulary, benchmark line shape, worked before/after examples) into a bundled references/ file and keep a one-line pointer in the body.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and imperative with no basic-concept explanations, but the bundled-mutation rule (--allow-mutate-bundled AND --held-out) is restated in five places (Iron Law, 'Where your skills live', decision tree, 'When it fails', Anti-Patterns) and the --split 1:1:1 / d_sel_too_small rationale is repeated twice, so it could be meaningfully tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete copy-paste commands throughout ('gbrain skillopt X --bootstrap-from-skill --split 1:1:1', '--resume <run-id>'), exact error codes, and the JSONL benchmark line shape make this mostly executable. Minor gaps: the pipeline's D3/D5/D6/D7/D8/D9/D12/D14/D17 design IDs are cited but never defined, and no worked example of a strengthened judge check is given, only the vocabulary. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The pipeline diagram gives an explicit sequence (pre-flight gates → baseline eval → gated epochs → final test eval), the bootstrap flow is a numbered 4-step checklist (generate → strengthen judges → delete sentinel → re-run), and validation is load-bearing throughout: median-of-3 + epsilon gate, hard-refusal codes, cost preflight with --dry-run, and --resume for crash recovery. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section headers and a decision tree give real structure, but the body leans on references that do not resolve in the bundle (D3-D17 IDs with no defining document, ../conventions/agent-operator-protocol.md, conventions/quality.md, an external GitHub tutorial), and the ~50-line judge-strengthening material is inlined where a references file would carry it. No references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories exist. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |