Content
50%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is a thoughtful, well-structured naming treatise with concrete heuristics and examples, but it is verbose and conceptual rather than lean and step-wise, and it points to a cases.md file that is not present in the bundle. All dimensions land at the middle anchor.
Suggestions
Provide the referenced cases.md (or remove the dangling link) so the 'See cases.md for concrete tables and the grandfathered short-name list' pointer resolves to a real file.
Tighten the conceptual prose: collapse the philosophical asides into the actionable rules so each section leads with the decision a reader must make (flatten / rename / extract / nest).
Add a short, numbered 'when planning a name' decision flow with the diff test as an explicit validation checkpoint so the guidance reads as a sequenced workflow rather than observations.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body correctly treats vanilla conventions as table stakes ("assume them") and avoids explaining basics Claude knows, but it is a long conceptual essay ("A codebase where neither test passes easily has a naming problem dressed up as an architecture problem") with substantial philosophical elaboration that could be tightened, matching 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' rather than a lean every-token-earns-its-place level. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | It provides concrete decision rules and examples (the diff test, the terseness test "would adding any peer to this parent make the terse name ambiguous?", suffix rules, painter.rs sibling examples), but much of the guidance is diagnostic/observational framing about what names 'reveal' and 'cost' rather than directly executable steps, placing it between 'some concrete guidance' and fully instructive. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The content is organized into clearly named sections and offers a verification signal via the diff test ("Remove it and the compiler or test suite will tell you"), but this is a set of principles rather than a sequenced multi-step workflow with explicit checkpoints, so it does not reach the clear-sequence-with-validation level. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure and a 'The short version' summary give reasonable in-file organization, and the single reference to [cases.md](cases.md) is one level deep and clearly signaled, but no cases.md bundle file actually exists in references/scripts/assets, so the reference dangles, and the body is a long monolithic essay that could itself be split. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 8 / 12 Passed |