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.
The body is a well-structured, navigable overview with a clear sequenced workflow and an appropriately placed single reference. Its weakness is redundancy: the core constraints are restated three times across sections, which inflates the token budget without adding guidance.
Suggestions
Collapse the duplicated grounding/prioritization/stop-before-ADR rules so each appears once (e.g., keep them in Constraints and reference them from the Workflow) to tighten conciseness from 3 toward 4.
Add an explicit validation checkpoint in the workflow (e.g., 'Verify each candidate cites a specific upstream evidence item before ranking it') to strengthen workflow clarity toward 5.
Inline one short worked example of a grounded, prioritized candidate so the body is actionable without requiring the reference read.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The prose is tight and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the same core rules (ground in evidence, prioritize by impact/risk, stop before ADR) are repeated across 'What is covered', 'Constraints', and 'Workflow', which is more than minor padding. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | As an instruction-only skill it gives concrete, specific directives — named evidence sources (problem frame, root causes, assumptions, context map), named prioritization criteria (stakeholder impact and risk), an explicit stop condition, and a concrete report statement — with only the minor gap that worked examples live in the reference. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Five numbered steps form a clear, well-sequenced procedure with soft checkpoints ('flag the gap instead of inventing', 'stop before architecture decisions'), but there is no explicit validate-the-candidate-is-grounded step or feedback loop, leaving a minor validation gap. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clean overview (intro, scope, constraints, when-to-use, workflow) pointing to a single well-signaled, one-level-deep reference that exists on disk, with no nested references and easy navigation. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |