Content
65%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The skill is highly actionable with ready-to-use templates and a well-sequenced 4-phase workflow, but it is somewhat verbose and the parallel-agent batch lacks a robust validation/retry feedback loop. Tightening repetition and adding a stronger agent-failure recovery loop would raise the lowest dimensions.
Suggestions
Consolidate the emerging-tech guidance into one location instead of repeating it across Phase 1, the agent methodology, and the synthesis section to improve conciseness.
Add an explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loop for failed or low-quality research threads (beyond a single retry) to lift workflow clarity past the batch-operation cap.
Extract the agent prompt template and/or synthesis document template into a references/ file and link to it from the main body to improve progressive disclosure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient operational guidance with concrete templates, but the emerging-tech emphasis is repeated across Phase 1 thread 7, the agent methodology, and the synthesis section, and the body (~228 lines) could be tightened; not a 3 because of this redundancy, not a 1 because it avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides copy-paste-ready artifacts: a full agent prompt template, a synthesis document template with frontmatter, explicit file save paths ('05-knowledge/research/YYYY-MM-DD-[slug].md'), and the 'research-[thread-slug]' naming convention; matches the anchor for fully executable, specific guidance. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 4-phase sequence with timings and a user confirmation checkpoint is clear, but spawning 5-7 parallel agents is a batch operation whose only recovery is 'retry once with alternative search terms' — no validate→fix→retry loop — so per the feedback-loops guideline workflow clarity is capped at 2; not a 3 because the batch feedback loop is missing. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized into clear sections with no nested references and no bundle files present, but the agent prompt template and synthesis template are inline in a 228-line monolith that could be split into reference files; not a 3 because content that could be separate remains inline. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |