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 instruction skill: a lean overview body with a clean single-reference progressive-disclosure design, concrete step-level guidance, and an explicit completeness checkpoint in its workflow. The main improvement opportunities are consolidating the restated framing-element lists and surfacing one worked example.
Suggestions
Consolidate the five framing elements, which currently appear in near-identical form in the intro, 'What is covered in this Skill?', 'Constraints', and 'Workflow' — stating them once fully and referring back elsewhere would trim tokens without losing information.
Include one compact worked example inline (a two-line vague input restated as a solution-free problem frame) so the 'separate the problem from any solution' step has a concrete model before the reader jumps to the reference.
Add an explicit verification cue to Workflow step 5, e.g. re-checking each of the five fields against the MUST constraints before reporting, turning the flag-open-fields checkpoint into a true validate-then-report loop.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean, assumes Claude's competence, and explains nothing the model doesn't already know. It stops short of 5 because the five framing elements are restated across 'What is covered in this Skill?', 'Constraints', and 'Workflow' — a trimming opportunity — though each restatement serves a distinct function (coverage, MUST/MUST NOT rules, procedure), keeping it above anchor 3. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill, the guidance is concrete and executable: 'Strip out wording that already assumes a fix, technology, or implementation, and restate the gap in observable terms' gives specific operations for each step. Not 5 because no worked example appears inline (they live in the reference), leaving minor gaps in covering common cases. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The five-step sequence is clearly ordered, begins with reading the required reference, and includes a completeness checkpoint ('flag any field left open pending a clarifying answer'). Not 5 because there is no explicit validate-and-retry feedback loop; well above 3 because the checkpoint is explicit rather than implicit. No destructive or batch operations, so the validation cap does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The short SKILL.md body is a clean overview that moves all detailed guidance, examples, and constraints into a single well-signaled, one-level-deep reference (linked twice as a MUST-read constraint and in a dedicated 'Reference' section, and the file exists in the bundle). This matches the top anchor: clear overview, appropriately split content, easy navigation. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |