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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.
The skill body is a well-structured, action-oriented workflow: six sequenced steps, explicit validation gates with bounded repair loops, concrete error handling, and correct delegation of detail to rule files. Its weaknesses are minor — some repeated phrasing, and references to bundle files that are not present in the reviewed directory.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense imperative bullets with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows, but there is minor repetition — "Read and apply rules/... from this skill's directory" appears five times, research.md persistence is described in both Step 2 and Step 6, and lines like "Critical: This phase ensures design is based on complete, accurate information" are padding. Anchor 4 (efficient, minor trimming possible), not 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete file paths ({{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/{feature}/design.md), exact spec.json metadata fields to set, copy-paste user messages, and runnable slash commands (/kiro-spec-design {feature} -y) make the guidance mostly executable. It falls short of 5 because the actual design-authoring guidance is delegated to templates and rule files not present in the bundle, and some directives like "Analyze the codebase to determine which files need to be created vs. modified" remain high-level. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops: approval validation with a stop condition in Step 1, a bounded review-gate loop in Step 5 ("at most 2 repair passes", stop and return to requirements on a real gap), and write-only-after-gate-passes in Step 6. Safety & Fallback enumerates error scenarios with exact stop conditions, user messages, and suggested actions. This matches the anchor-5 example's structure of validate-fix-retry with explicit gating. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body delegates detailed guidance to clearly signaled, one-level-deep rule files (rules/design-principles.md, rules/design-discovery-full.md, rules/design-discovery-light.md, rules/design-synthesis.md, rules/design-review-gate.md) at their point of use — a good split. However, none of these files (nor any references/, scripts/, or assets/ bundle) exists in the skill directory as reviewed, so the references cannot be verified and navigation depends on unshipped files. Anchor 4, not 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |