Content
77%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 well-structured, actionable design doctrine with clear decision procedures and validation gates, but it is verbose for its length and monolithic rather than progressively disclosed into reference files.
Suggestions
Tighten rhetorical padding and drop or compress 'The short version' recap to reduce tokens, since it restates the thesis and disciplines already covered.
Split the densest material (the deciding-table rationale, the five disciplines' deep examples) into a reference file under references/ and link to it from SKILL.md to enable progressive disclosure.
Collapse the cross-references to companion skills into a single consolidated 'Related skills' line to reduce repetition of the $pedantic/$etiology/$naming pointers.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The doctrine assumes Claude's intelligence (no basic-concept explanations) but carries rhetorical padding ('The asymmetry is brutal', 'you're about to break one') and a full 'short version' recap that restates earlier sections, so it could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Though code-free, it provides concrete, executable decision procedures (a first-match-wins deciding table, a ranked three-rung extension ladder, a test-as-spec discipline) that a Claude authoring an SDK can follow directly, satisfying the instruction-skill actionability bar. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Multi-step processes are clearly sequenced with explicit gates — the deciding table ('walk these in order, first match wins'), the extension ladder ('reach down only when the rung above doesn't fit'), and the promotion contract's 'could a stranger build the next caller against this API alone?' validation test. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | It is well-sectioned and its $-prefixed companion-skill references are one-level-deep and clearly signaled, but the ~265-line body is monolithic with no bundle files splitting out detailed material, fitting the score-2 'content that should be separate is inline' anchor. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |