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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 well-structured, actionable procedure: an exact-phrasing Iron Law with good/bad examples, an ordered decision tree with precedence and multi-category handling, a copy-paste-ready page template, and concrete error-recovery guidance. Weaknesses are modest — a missing exact command for the audio-upload step, no explicit write validation checkpoint, some duplicated rule statements, and trailing conformance-test stub sections.
Suggestions
Provide the exact storage upload command (or an explicit pointer to how to invoke it in src/core/storage.ts) so pipeline step 1 is as executable as the rest.
Add a short verification checkpoint after the WRITE step (e.g. confirm the page write succeeded before cross-linking) to pair with the existing reactive error-recovery guidance.
Trim the duplicated Iron Law statement (top section vs. Anti-Patterns) and the conformance-test stub sections to tighten token efficiency.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes competence — no explanation of what transcription is, and tool notes like 'Groq Whisper is fast and cheap... segment audio > 25MB via ffmpeg first' are practical selection guidance, not padding. Minor trimmable redundancy keeps it at anchor 4: the Iron Law is restated in Anti-Patterns, and the 'Contract'/'Output Format' sections are openly stubs that 'exist for the conformance test'. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is mostly executable and copy-paste ready: a complete brain-page skeleton with full frontmatter, literal citation formats, a concrete filename example ('2026-04-13-rick-rubin-creative-philosophy.ogg'), and specific error recovery ('poll gbrain write-request <request_id>'). The one notable gap is pipeline step 1 — 'Upload original audio to gbrain storage backend' gives no exact command, only 'pluggable per src/core/storage.ts' — which keeps it below anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 5-step pipeline is clearly sequenced, the decision tree has explicit precedence ('Apply in order. First match wins') plus multi-category cross-link handling, and the 'When it fails' section provides real feedback loops (revision_conflict → re-read and merge; poll write-request). It sits below anchor 5 because the mutating write step has no explicit pre-write validation checkpoint — recovery is reactive rather than a validate-before-proceeding step; batching is explicitly excluded ('ONE voice note at a time'), so the destructive/batch cap is not triggered. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Conventions are referenced in top blockquotes and inline, clearly signaled and one level deep, and the core page-format template is appropriately inline; the ~185-line body is well sectioned with a navigable structure. Minor gaps hold it at anchor 4: the trailing 'Contract'/'Output Format' meta-stubs exist only for a conformance test, and cross-bundle references (../conventions/quality.md, ../_brain-filing-rules.md, ../conventions/agent-operator-protocol.md) point outside this bundle where they cannot be verified. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |