Content
65%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is highly actionable with specific commands, paths, and diagnostic tells, and is well organized, but it is long and monolithic with no progressive disclosure to bundle files. Some diagnostic prose could be tightened and workflows framed as explicit checkpointed sequences.
Suggestions
Move the detailed Common Diagnostics cases and the Pointers file list into reference bundle files (e.g. references/diagnostics.md, references/file-map.md), keeping only the top tells and entrypoints inline, to improve progressive_disclosure and conciseness.
Tighten the Common Diagnostics prose (e.g. the input-available / persistIncomingTail explanation) to the minimum signal needed, trimming redundant restatement.
Frame the verification and diagnostic flows as short numbered checkpointed sequences (e.g. 1. typecheck+test touched package -> 2. rebuild daemon if touched -> 3. agent typecheck -> 4. smoke:sessions:live) to make workflow checkpoints explicit.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body mostly earns its tokens with project-specific architecture, boundaries, and verification commands and does not explain concepts Claude already knows, but the Common Diagnostics prose is long and could be tightened without losing the signal. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, executable guidance: copy-paste pnpm verification commands, a read-only sqlite3 query, and specific source paths plus pinpoint fixes (e.g. "add the offender to IGNORED_SCAN_DIRS in @grida/daemon's workspaces/scan.ts"). | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Sequenced procedures exist (verification pair with the build-order checkpoint that @grida/daemon must rebuild before @grida/agent typechecks, and a "first thing to check" diagnostic flow), but they are presented as scattered reference prose rather than explicit checkpointed validate-fix-retry loops. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Sections are well organized (Shape, Boundaries, Ownership, Diagnostics, Live state, Security, Verification, Pointers) and references are one level deep, but the ~290-line body is monolithic with no bundle files to offload detailed diagnostics or the full pointers list. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |