Conciseness

Quotes: the whole body is lean — "Before touching anything, identify which kind of work this is", the bulleted "When this skill fires" list, and the four-line "What this skill is NOT" guardrails. It never explains concepts Claude already knows, matching anchor 4 ("Efficient; minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed"). Not 5: lines like "classifying wrong is the single biggest way this skill gets misapplied" are editorial padding beyond the instruction needed; not 3: there is no genuine over-explanation, only minor tightening opportunities.

Actionability

Quotes: 'ask Josh in one sentence: "Is this you correcting a behavior, or you wanting me to know about a capability?"', "Editing the flat behavioral rules in claude/CLAUDE.md", "Load correction-driven.md before editing", "Load placement.md for both decisions". The classification procedure, fallback question, and file paths are concrete, but the pivotal "Load X" instructions point to files that do not exist anywhere in the bundle (no references/ directory), so the guidance cannot be executed as written — anchor 3 ("Some concrete guidance but incomplete... missing key details"). Not 4: the gap is broken executable links, not minor details; not 2: the decision procedure given inline is fully concrete.

Workflow Clarity

Quotes: "Before touching anything, identify which kind of work this is", "Load correction-driven.md before editing", "Get either wrong and the artifact pollutes every project, silently stops applying, or lands in the wrong voice". A sequence is discernible (classify → load voice guide → decide placement → edit under guardrails) but it is implicit in section order rather than an explicit procedure, and there are no checkpoints verifying the classification or the finished artifact — anchor 3 ("sequence present but checkpoints missing or implicit"). Not 4: validation is entirely absent rather than a minor gap; not 2: the ordering and the explicit fallback question give a coherent flow.

Progressive Disclosure

Quotes: 'Load **`correction-driven.md`**', 'Load **`informative-capability.md`**', 'Load **`placement.md`**'. The body is written as an ideal one-level router with clearly bolded references, but scored against the actual bundle structure (per the judging guideline), no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories exist — all three referenced files are missing, so the disclosure structure is nominal and navigation to the detail content is impossible. This lands at anchor 2 (effectively broken/minimal reference structure). Not 3: the references, though clearly signaled, do not resolve to real files; not 1: there is no nested reference chain and the SKILL.md itself is well-organized.

Specificity

Quotes: "editing or creating rules or skills", "Routes to the correct voice and process based on whether the work is correction-driven... or informative". It names the domain and the routing/classification action, matching anchor 3 ("Names domain and 1-2 concrete actions, but not comprehensive"). Not 4: "routes to the correct voice and process" is abstract — it never names what the routed voices or processes actually are, so action coverage stays thin.

Completeness

Quotes: "Use when editing or creating rules or skills (global or project)" (explicit, specific 'when') and "Routes to the correct voice and process based on whether the work is correction-driven (encoding a behavioral lesson) or informative (documenting a capability)" (a 'what' that defines both categories). Both are present, matching anchor 4 ("Has both 'what' and 'when'"). Not 5: the 'what' is meta — it describes routing rather than the concrete work performed on the rules/skills; not 3: the 'when' is explicit, not weakly implied.

Trigger Term Quality

Quotes: "editing or creating rules or skills", "correction-driven", "informative", "behavioral lesson", "capability". Some relevant keywords exist, but natural user phrasings ("add a rule", "update CLAUDE.md", "document this so it doesn't happen again", "make a skill") are absent — anchor 3 ("Some relevant keywords but missing common variations or synonyms"). Not 4: coverage is partial with no synonyms or file-level trigger terms.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Quotes: "rules or skills (global or project)", "correction-driven", "informative". It occupies a clear niche (editing the rule/skill artifacts themselves) with a distinctive two-category taxonomy, matching anchor 4 ("Mostly distinct; minor overlap risk with closely related skills"). Not 5: "editing or creating... skills" overlaps with generic skill-authoring guidance and sibling meta-skills.