Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is highly actionable with concrete commands, a clear sequenced procedure, explicit validation feedback loops, and well-structured one-level-deep references. Its main weakness is redundancy across several overlapping sections that inflates token cost without adding new guidance.
Suggestions
Consolidate the overlapping content in Purpose, Philosophy, Preconditions, Execution Boundaries, Failure Mode, and Anti-Patterns so each guideline appears once; this would lift conciseness toward a 3.
Replace the single '<role.toml>' placeholder in the TOML syntax check with a concrete example path or a clearly named variable to keep all commands copy-paste ready.
Drop or relocate the external archived path (Infrastructure/references/deferred-skill-context/...) unless it is verified to exist, since it sits outside the skill bundle and cannot be navigated from the references directory.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is directive and assumes Claude's competence (no basic-concept filler), but the same ideas recur across Purpose, Philosophy, Preconditions, Execution Boundaries, Procedure, Failure Mode, and Anti-Patterns, so it could be tightened; not a 1 because it never explains things Claude already knows, not a 3 because the cross-section redundancy means not every token earns its place. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands ('./bin/ask skills audit ... --json --robot', the tomllib one-liner) plus exact source anchors and field names; the few high-level Procedure steps and one '<role.toml>' placeholder do not drop it to the 'pseudocode/incomplete' level of a 2. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A sequenced 9-step Procedure is paired with a Validation Gates section that specifies an explicit stop-and-rerun feedback loop and concrete gate commands, matching the 'clear sequence with explicit validation steps and feedback loops' anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is an overview with clearly signaled one-level-deep references via the Context Routes section and inline links; verified referenced files (role-creation-guide.md, role-config-examples.md, contract.yaml, evals.yaml, discovery-interview.md) all exist and do not chain into deeper nested references. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |