Content
81%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 well-structured, highly actionable instruction skill: a five-phase workflow with explicit approval checkpoints, concrete naming conventions, and genuine one-level-deep references. The main cost is redundancy — the template is inlined and duplicated in a reference file, and Overview/When to Use/Best Practices/Constraints overlap — which trims token efficiency and keeps progressive disclosure below top marks.
Suggestions
Remove the full markdown template block from Phase 3 (or the 'Default Conventions' detail from Phase 2) and point solely to references/template.md, keeping only a one-line structure summary inline.
Merge or cut 'When to Use', which repeats the Overview paragraph and the frontmatter description almost verbatim.
Fold 'Best Practices' and 'Constraints and Warnings' into the existing Phase 3 drafting rules and Phase 1 scope check to eliminate the repeated statements about honest trade-offs and new-ADR-only scope.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body never re-teaches known concepts and is directive throughout, but it could be tightened: 'When to Use' restates the Overview, the Phase 3 template block duplicates references/template.md, and 'Best Practices' and 'Constraints and Warnings' largely restate Phase 1/Phase 3 rules. It is not 'noticeably verbose' with several padded sections (anchor 2), so it sits at the mostly-efficient anchor. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully actionable for an instruction-only skill: concrete search paths ('docs/architecture/adr', 'docs/adr', 'adr', 'architecture/adr'), an exact filename pattern and title format, a copy-paste markdown template, and two worked examples with expected flows. Per the rubric's code_vs_instruction note, absence of code is not penalized. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Five clearly sequenced phases with explicit validation: a Phase 1 input checklist, a Phase 4 approval gate ('Ask for approval before creating the file') with a revise-first feedback loop, and a stop rule in Phase 5. This is a single-file creation skill, not a destructive/batch operation, so the validation cap does not apply. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Both referenced bundle files (references/template.md, references/examples.md) exist, are one level deep, and are well signaled in the Overview and Examples sections. It falls short of anchor 5 because the Phase 3 template block duplicates the content of references/template.md inline and the Overview/When-to-Use redundancy inflates the SKILL.md body. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |