Content
68%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 maximally lean and delegates cleanly to a single named document, which is good token efficiency and one-level-deep disclosure. However, it provides no inline steps, no explicit flow-selection guidance, and no explicit validation checkpoints for an operation that is hard to reverse.
Suggestions
Add a one-line decision rule for choosing the flow, e.g. 'Fresh patch for bug fixes, fresh minor for backward-compatible features, promote when a beta has been validated' — this makes 'the applicable flow' unambiguous without duplicating docs/release.md.
Inline the completion checklist's key validation gates (e.g. CI green, tag exists, changelog updated) or at least name them explicitly, so verification of a hard-to-reverse release does not depend solely on the external doc being present.
Briefly summarize the 3-4 high-level steps of the release flow (branch, version bump, tag, publish) so the skill remains actionable if docs/release.md cannot be located.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is two lines with zero padding: "Follow the applicable flow and the **Stable release (or promotion)** completion checklist in `docs/release.md` end-to-end." It fully assumes Claude's competence and explains nothing Claude already knows, matching the lean-and-efficient anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | The pointer is concrete (a named file and a named checklist) but the body itself contains no executable steps, and "the applicable flow" leaves the choice among fresh patch, fresh minor, and promote implicit. This sits between anchors 3 and 4 — closer to 3 because key details (how to pick and execute the flow) are delegated without summary. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | No sequence or validation checkpoints appear in the body; the flow and completion checklist live entirely in the referenced doc, so checkpoints are only implicit. A release is an outward-facing, hard-to-reverse operation, and the rubric caps such workflows at 3 when validation is not explicit in the skill. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The single reference to `docs/release.md` is well-signaled and one level deep, and nothing that belongs elsewhere is inlined. It falls short of 5 because there is no inline overview content at all and no bundled references, leaving minor organization gaps (e.g., guiding the patch/minor/promote choice). | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |