Content
55%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 body is admirably lean but hollow: its central mechanism (the 'hard-deny tier' requiring user approval) is referenced yet never defined, the process/exceptions numbering is broken, and there is no verification step for a skill whose entire purpose is gating destructive operations. It reads as an outline of a policy rather than executable guidance.
Suggestions
Define the 'hard-deny tier' referenced in step 4 — list which actions fall in it and what the explicit approval request must contain; the dangling 'see below' makes the approval mechanism unusable.
Fix the numbering so exceptions are bullets under a separate 'Exceptions' list rather than steps 5-7 continuing the process sequence, and add a verification checkpoint (e.g., confirm blast radius and user approval before proceeding) as required for destructive-operation skills.
Make 'Assess BLAST RADIUS' and 'Consider safer alternatives' concrete: specify what to check (affected systems, data recoverability, shared/production scope) and what a safer-alternative proposal should include.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~30-line body is lean and efficient: short directives ('Assess BLAST RADIUS before execution', 'THINK THE OPPOSITE'), a compact example list, and two brief pitfalls. It assumes Claude's competence with no padding or explanations of known concepts. Matches anchor 5 — every token earns its place. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is high-level hints without executable specifics: 'Assess BLAST RADIUS', 'Consider safer alternatives', and 'MUST REQUIRE EXPLICIT user approval for hard-deny tier (see below)' — yet the 'hard-deny tier' is never defined anywhere in the skill, a critical missing detail. The examples list is the only concrete element. This matches anchor 2 (high-level hints missing the specific steps), not 3, because the central approval mechanism is undefined. | 2 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence is incoherent: exceptions are numbered 5-7 as though they were process steps following items 1-4, and step 4 references a 'hard-deny tier (see below)' that does not exist. There is no validation or verification checkpoint despite the skill governing destructive operations (the rubric's cap-at-3 rule for destructive skills applies; the content falls below it anyway). Rough sequence with many gaps matches anchor 2. | 2 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | This is an under-50-line skill with no bundle files and no need for external references; it has two clear sections (<process>, <pitfalls>) per the simple-skill exception. Minor organization gaps — XML-style pseudo-tags instead of markdown headers, and the exceptions block confusingly nested inside <process> — hold it at anchor 4 rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 13 / 20 Passed |