Content
82%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.
This is a high-quality, actionable instruction skill: a clearly sequenced Red-Green-Verify-Commit loop backed by concrete commands, named patterns, and specific anti-pattern examples, with no filler. The main improvements are removing the redundant ASCII diagram, adding an explicit fix-and-retry feedback loop, and considering a reference file for the red-flags/anti-patterns material.
Suggestions
Add an explicit error-recovery step to the loop (e.g., "If VERIFY fails: fix, re-run the focused test, then re-run the full verification") to complete the feedback loop.
Delete or shrink the ASCII diagram — it duplicates the numbered loop immediately above it and costs ~15 lines of context.
If the skill grows, move the Agent Red Flags and Test Anti-Patterns sections into a references/ file linked from the body to keep SKILL.md as a lean overview.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and free of basic-concept padding (no explainer on what TDD is), but the 15-line ASCII diagram restates the numbered loop it follows, and a few inline *Tips* could be trimmed — minor over-explanation that keeps it below the lean 5 anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully concrete: specific commands ("npx tsc --noEmit", "git revert", "./gradlew"), a verbatim tautological-test example ("expect(add(a,b)).toBe(a+b)"), a ready-to-use user-reporting phrase, and named patterns (Prove-It, AAA) covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step loop is clearly sequenced with an explicit VERIFY checkpoint (focused test, full suite, build, type checker, linter), but unlike the 5 anchor there is no explicit error-recovery feedback loop (e.g., "if verification fails, fix and re-run") — the red-flags section only partially covers self-correction. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | A single well-organized file with clear section headers and no buried or nested references; however, at ~80 lines it exceeds the under-50-line simple-skill exception, and sections like the red-flags and anti-patterns lists are candidates for a separate reference if the skill grows, leaving minor organization gaps versus the 5 anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |