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85%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-engineered instructional skill: a clearly sequenced investigation workflow with built-in verification and error recovery, concrete tool-level guidance, and proper progressive disclosure into three real reference files. The only improvements available are trimming the duplicated exception guidance and inlining a couple of literal query/parameter examples.
Suggestions
Consolidate the exception two-surface guidance: state it once in Step 2 and reduce the Error Surge pattern to a pointer (e.g., 'apply the exception discovery steps from Step 2') to remove the repetition costing conciseness.
Inline one fully-formed example per common case — e.g., a literal BubbleUp call shape in Step 3 and a concrete failed-span query in the Error Surge pattern — so the core workflow is copy-paste executable without opening the references.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes competence — no tutorials on what tracing or observability is, every section adds non-obvious domain knowledge. It is not a 5 because the exception two-surface guidance is stated in full in Step 2 and then substantially repeated in the Error Surge pattern section, a minor trim opportunity. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance throughout: named MCP tools (`run_bubbleup`, `get_trace`, `get_service_map`, `find_columns`) with field-level queries (`P99(duration_ms)`, `error=true`, `event.name=exception`) and a quantified interpretation example. It stops short of anchor 5 because literal query syntax and BubbleUp parameter values are not shown inline — they are delegated to reference files. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear six-step sequence with an explicit validation checkpoint (Step 5: query with the suspected cause filtered in vs. without it as a control), feedback loops for error recovery ('When Results Are Empty or Unclear' prescribes `find_columns`, time-range expansion, filter changes), and terse per-pattern checklists. This matches anchor 5 rather than 4, whose checkpoints would only be mostly present. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The ~125-line overview keeps playbooks, BubbleUp details, and trace analysis as one-line summaries and points to three well-signaled reference files (all verified to exist, with descriptive annotations and no nested references). Cross-references to sibling skills are clearly labeled, matching anchor 5's clear overview with one-level-deep references. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |