Conciseness

The body is dense and operational (status table, skip-cause table, checklists) with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows, matching the 'efficient' anchor. However, the "Improve joelclaw While You Nanny" section prose and the commit-message boilerplate in "How to improve" could be trimmed, keeping it below the 'every token earns its place' bar.

Actionability

Quotes: `joelclaw loop status <LOOP_ID>`, `grep -i "error\|fail\|reject" /tmp/agent-loop/<LOOP_ID>/*.out`, `kubectl -n joelclaw rollout restart deployment/system-bus-worker`, `joelclaw loop diagnose all -c --fix` — copy-paste ready commands cover the common cases (skip triage, stuck loop, cleanup, worker restart). The one command-free block ("Use the target project's configured test command") is explicitly justified flexibility, so it does not drop the score.

Workflow Clarity

Quotes: the numbered Post-Loop Cleanup steps (1–6) with "Verify merge landed" as an explicit checkpoint, the Monitoring Checklist sequence, intervene/don't-intervene decision criteria, and the diagnose → `--fix` → "Verify fix worked (~30s later)" feedback loop. Destructive operations (cancel, worktree removal, test deletion) carry explicit inspection/preservation guards, matching the top anchor.

Progressive Disclosure

Headers are clear and the two cross-references are one level deep and well signaled ("See [loop-diagnosis skill](../loop-diagnosis/SKILL.md) for full reference", "Follow the [cli-design skill](../cli-design/SKILL.md)"). It stays at 4 rather than 5 because the ~215-line body inlines the tangential "Improve joelclaw While You Nanny" section (and the full skip-cause/diagnosis detail) that would fit better in a separated reference file.

Specificity

Quotes: "Monitor running agent loops, triage failures, clean up after completion, and decide when to intervene" — four concrete actions covering the full lifecycle (monitoring, triage, cleanup, intervention decisions). This matches the score-5 anchor (multiple specific concrete actions, comprehensive coverage) rather than 4, since the actions span every phase of the skill's niche with no obvious gap.

Completeness

Quotes: the action list ("Monitor... triage... clean up... decide when to intervene") answers 'what', and "Use when a loop is running and needs babysitting, when a loop just finished... when stories are skipping/failing... or when stale test artifacts need cleanup" explicitly answers 'when' with concrete trigger phrases. It mirrors the score-5 example structure; the 'when' is explicit, not weakly implied as at 4.

Trigger Term Quality

Quotes: 'check the loop', 'what happened with the loop', 'loop finished', 'clean up after loop', 'why did that story skip', 'monitor loop', 'nanny the loop', "or any post-start loop management task" — these are natural phrases a user would actually say, with synonym variations and a catch-all, matching the comprehensive-coverage anchor.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Quotes: "Distinct from agent-loop skill (which handles starting loops)" — the nearest competing skill is explicitly disambiguated, and the niche (post-start loop management) has distinct triggers. Minimal conflict risk, matching the clear-niche anchor.