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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 well-sequenced, genuinely skeptical verification workflow with strong checklists and honest failure handling, but it is monolithic: two full report templates are inlined that should be split into reference files, and the admonition repetition adds tokens without adding guidance. Splitting the report templates out would raise both conciseness and progressive disclosure.
Suggestions
Move the two ~60-line report templates (main report and inconclusive report) into references/report-templates.md and reference them by link, which would address both the conciseness and progressive_disclosure gaps.
Consolidate the repeated skeptic admonitions ("BE SKEPTICAL", "BE CAREFUL", "CRITICAL") into a single statement of the skepticism principle in Core Principles, removing the duplicated emphasis markers.
Make the Phase 2 local-search guidance concrete by naming example search patterns (e.g., file-name globs and content greps for a requirement) instead of the generic description of grep/glob/read.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient but the two full report templates (~60 lines each) are inlined wholesale and skeptical admonitions are repeated ("CRITICAL", "BE SKEPTICAL", "BE CAREFUL") where one statement of the principle would do. Not a 2 because there is no conceptual padding explaining things Claude already knows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete tool invocations (read_document, code_search with quoted query patterns) plus explicit pass/fail rubrics (Match Quality, Evidence Strength, Fidelity) and enumerated false-positive rules make this mostly executable. A 5 would require fully copy-paste-ready commands; the local-search guidance ("use grep/glob/read") stays descriptive rather than specific. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 4-phase sequence (fetch → search → vet → report) with explicit validation checklists in Phase 3, an honest-inconclusive branch, and a troubleshooting section providing error-recovery feedback loops. This is not a destructive or batch operation, so no cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, so everything lives in one ~215-line SKILL.md; the two large report templates clearly belong in a references/ file. Section structure itself is clear (not a 2), but content that should be separate is inline and no references are used at all (not a 4). | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |