Conciseness

The core operational spec (field tables, bash snippets, output format) is tight and assumes competence, but roughly the last third of the body — "Overview", "Prerequisites", "Instructions", "Output", "Error Handling", "Examples", "Resources" — restates "What to read", "How to compute each field", "Failure modes", and "Output format", including the same output block printed three times. This is significant avoidable padding, keeping it below anchor 4; it is not a 2 because the duplicated content is at least accurate and the primary spec sections are efficient rather than scattered with explanation of known concepts.

Actionability

Guidance is mostly executable: copy-paste bash for every field (git tag lookup, stat with BSD/GNU fallback, grep/sed Status-block parsing, checkbox-count fallback) and a verbatim output block. Minor gaps keep it from a 5 — the "Last update Xm Ys ago" and "Ns elapsed" rendering rely on timestamps whose parsing is never shown, and the running sub-task's "(Implementer · 14s elapsed)" annotation has no computation spec.

Workflow Clarity

The sequence is clear (static snapshot fields → per-task parsing → render, then stop), and every step has an explicit degradation checkpoint in "Failure modes"/"Error Handling" — missing tag, missing profile, malformed Status block, no task files each map to a defined behavior. It falls short of a 5 because the workflow is stated twice ("What to read"/"How to compute" vs. the "Instructions" summary), leaving two parallel tellings of the same steps, and the multi-phase features section defers its parsing rules to the per-task section without an explicit checkpoint for a malformed phase roster.

Progressive Disclosure

Bundle references exist (references/output-style.md, references/DOCTRINE.md), but the body's links are broken: "[DOCTRINE.md](../hyperflow/DOCTRINE.md)" points outside the bundle instead of references/DOCTRINE.md, and "[feature-phases.md](../hyperflow/feature-phases.md)" resolves to no file at all. Combined with the duplicated inline sections that should have been consolidated, structure and navigation are only partially working — matching 'some structure, references present but not clearly signaled' rather than the good-structure anchor.

Specificity

The description enumerates the concrete capabilities comprehensively: "version, profile freshness, memory count, and live progress on every in-flight task", plus the explicit constraint "Read-only; never modifies state, never dispatches workers". For a read-only status skill, displaying these exact fields is the action, and coverage of both output sections is complete. It is not a 4 because no capability area of the skill is left unnamed.

Completeness

It opens with an explicit "Use when the user wants a one-screen view of current hyperflow project state" clause (the 'when') and states the 'what' concretely in the same sentence, then adds concrete trigger phrases in the second line. Both what and when are explicitly and clearly answered with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor exactly.

Trigger Term Quality

It lists natural phrases users would actually say — "what is hyperflow doing", "show task progress", "where are we" — alongside the explicit slash command "/hyperflow:status". These cover the question-form triggers a user would naturally produce when they need this skill, matching the comprehensive-synonyms anchor rather than the 'a few natural terms missing' anchor.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The description is scoped to a clear niche — hyperflow project state, with a named slash command and hyperflow-specific trigger phrases — so it would not fire for unrelated status/progress requests. Minimal overlap with other skills; the read-only/no-dispatch boundary further distinguishes it from worker skills.