Content
71%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 interactive skill: clear sequencing, appropriate delegation to a single well-signaled reference, and concrete conditions for choosing among the four techniques. The main weakness is redundancy — the technique descriptions are repeated across the coverage list, constraints, and workflow sections, which inflates token cost without adding guidance.
Suggestions
Consolidate the four technique descriptions: state each technique once (in the workflow, where it is applied) and reduce the MUST constraint bullets to hard rules like 'MUST NOT invent a root cause' that are not already covered in the workflow, cutting roughly a third of the body.
Cut the 'What is covered in this Skill?' bullet list or reduce it to a one-line summary naming the four techniques, since the description and workflow already enumerate them.
Add one short inline worked example (e.g., a 3-step Five Whys chain that stops at the evidence boundary) so the actionability does not depend entirely on the reference file.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Each of the four techniques is described three times across the coverage list, the MUST constraint bullets, and the workflow steps (e.g., Fishbone's "when more than one causal dimension (people, process, technology, environment) is plausible" appears nearly verbatim twice), so the body could be meaningfully tightened. It is not a 4 because the repetition goes beyond minor over-explanation, but not a 2 since nothing is padded filler or basic-concept explanation. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The workflow is directive and condition-specific ("Read `references/022-root-cause-analysis.md`, then identify the symptom(s)", "Apply Fishbone… when more than one causal dimension… is plausible"), which is concrete, executable guidance for an instruction-only skill. It falls short of 5 only because worked examples and application detail are fully delegated to the reference file rather than partially instantiated inline. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Six clearly sequenced steps with explicit application conditions, a stopping rule ("stopping when further 'why' steps would require guessing"), and a final checkpoint to flag open findings. No validate-then-fix feedback loop is present, which the 5 anchor expects, though no destructive or batch operation exists that would cap the score at 3. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a clean overview with all detail split into a single real one-level-deep reference (references/022-root-cause-analysis.md exists and contains the detailed guidance plus examples), signaled both in a MUST-read bullet and a dedicated Reference section with a markdown link, making navigation trivial. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |