Content
88%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 tightly engineered process skill: concrete commands and templates, an explicitly gated multi-step workflow with validation feedback loops, and clear sectioning. The only soft spot is mild rhetorical padding and the absence of any progressive-disclosure file split.
Suggestions
Trim motivational framing sentences (e.g. 'A spec is the contract between...', 'is a liability — it reads authoritative while being unfounded') to tighten the conciseness score toward 5.
Consider extracting the Decision Log and Open Questions block templates into a short reference file referenced once from Step 6/7 to introduce a one-level-deep progressive-disclosure split.
The autonomy-mode table and Step 0 routing prose are slightly redundant with the Mandatory execution order list; consolidating could reduce length without losing clarity.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Largely efficient craft guidance Claude would not already know, but scattered rhetorical framing ('A spec is the contract between...', 'is a liability — it reads authoritative while being unfounded') could be trimmed without losing the instruction. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, executable OpenKnowledge verbs with real arguments — exec("ls -A proposals/"), write({ document: { path, template } }), audit({ path }), search({ query }) — plus copy-ready YAML frontmatter and Decision Log / Open Questions markdown templates covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A numbered 12-step (Step 0–11) mandatory execution order with explicit HARD GATE checkpoints ('do not create spec.md until the parent-proposal question is resolved', 'do not draft the proposed Design until the current-system map is written'), a Supervised STOP gate, and a Step 10 validate-and-fix feedback loop. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist; all content lives inline in a ~290-line SKILL.md, but it is well organized into one section per step with clear headers and no nested references. The Decision Log / Open Questions templates could plausibly be split out, but keeping them inline is reasonable for an integral process. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |