Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured, actionable instruction skill with a clear sequenced workflow and clean one-level progressive disclosure to a verified reference file. The main weakness is redundancy: the four techniques are enumerated in three separate sections, which could be consolidated to improve token efficiency.
Suggestions
Consolidate the technique listing: 'What is covered in this Skill?', 'When to use this skill', and 'Workflow' each restate Five Whys, Fishbone, Current Reality Tree, and constraint identification — fold the coverage bullets into the corresponding workflow steps to remove the triple repetition.
Drop the opening paragraph that restates the frontmatter description verbatim and let the 'What is covered' or 'Workflow' section open the body directly.
Trim the duplicate 'Reference' section (the link already appears in the Workflow step 1 and the Constraints MUST), keeping a single clearly signaled pointer to references/022-root-cause-analysis.md.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence (no basic definitions of the techniques), but the four techniques are restated across 'What is covered in this Skill?', 'When to use this skill', and 'Workflow', creating avoidable redundancy; not level 3 because that repetition could be tightened, and not level 1 because it is not padded with concepts Claude already knows. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Gives concrete per-technique instruction — e.g. 'Chain "why" questions from the symptom toward an evidenced root cause, stopping when further "why" steps would require guessing' and 'Organize candidate causes into categories (people, process, technology, environment)'; for an instruction-only skill this is specific and actionable, so the absence of code is not penalized. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear six-step sequence (read reference → Five Whys → Fishbone → Current Reality Tree → identify constraint → report) with an explicit error-handling checkpoint ('flag any finding left open pending a clarifying answer'); the cap-at-2 rule for missing validation does not apply because this is non-destructive analysis rather than a batch or destructive operation. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a concise overview that points to a single one-level-deep reference ('references/022-root-cause-analysis.md'), which exists on disk and is clearly signaled both as a MUST-read constraint and in a dedicated Reference section; not level 2 because navigation is explicit and the split is appropriate. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |