Content
78%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.
A well-structured, actionable skill body organized around a routing table and six sub-skills, with executable code and an appropriately used one-level-deep reference file. It is slightly held back by a few unnecessary conceptual explanations and by two sub-skills that defer their code to the reference rather than inlining it.
Suggestions
Trim the conceptual preamble ("Liquidity matters because..." and the Almgren-Chriss framework aside) — Claude already understands these; keep only the operational note.
Inline at least a minimal executable snippet for Sub-Skill B (Spread Analysis) and Sub-Skill D (Order Book Depth) so every route has copy-paste-ready code, reserving the reference for the extended template only.
Add an explicit validation checkpoint after data fetch (e.g. confirm non-empty history and present quote fields before computing) to make the read-only workflow's error handling overt.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient executable code, but a few passages over-explain concepts Claude already knows ("Liquidity matters because it determines the real cost of trading..." and the Almgren-Chriss background note), which could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Sub-skills A, C, E, and F ship copy-paste-ready Python functions with a defaults table, but Sub-Skills B and D defer their core code templates to the reference file rather than providing them inline, leaving minor gaps. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear three-step flow (dependencies -> route-to-sub-skill -> respond) with a routing table and empty-data guards sequences the work well; it stops just short of explicit validation checkpoints, which is acceptable since the operations are read-only rather than destructive or batch. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clear overview of six sub-skills that pushes detailed formulas, extended templates, and academic background into a single one-level-deep reference file, signaled with explicit section pointers (e.g. "§ Options Spread Analysis") that resolve to real headings. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |