Content
96%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.
A dense, high-quality instructional body: fully executable commands, an explicitly sequenced procedure with validation gates, feedback loops, and stop conditions, and disciplined token efficiency. The single weakness is progressive disclosure — the overview names most references precisely, but a handful of bundled reference files are gestured at rather than linked, leaving them harder to discover.
Suggestions
In Gotchas, replace "Gitcrawl, and security-suppression edge cases live in references" with the exact filenames: references/gitcrawl-recovery.md and references/security-auditability.md.
Link references/review-output-classification.md from Procedure step 3, where findings are classified as accepted/rejected/blocked, so the classification rules are discoverable.
Point the Validation section's "smoke eval" and the audit checks at their concrete sources (references/evals.yaml) so the eval suite is reachable from the body.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is uniformly lean and imperative — "Verify each finding from source and classify it as accepted, rejected, or blocked", "Fail closed on ambiguous finding output" — with zero padding and no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. It matches the 'every token earns its place' anchor; the telegraphic density is maximal token efficiency, not verbosity. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Commands are copy-paste ready throughout: "codex review --uncommitted", "codex review --base <base>", "codex review --commit <ref>", and the helper invocation "--mode commit --commit HEAD", with the Examples section covering the three common target cases. This matches the 'fully executable; specific examples cover the common cases' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Procedure is a clear numbered sequence with explicit validation checkpoints ("Rerun focused validation and rerun review after review-triggered code changes"), an explicit stop condition ("Stop when the final helper/review run exits 0 with no accepted/actionable findings"), fail-fast validation gates, and a dedicated Failure Mode section for error recovery — matching the top anchor with feedback loops and recovery paths. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep named pointers (references/discovery-interview.md, references/target-selection.md, references/helper-behavior.md, references/validation-matrix.md, references/preserved-behavior.md), all present in the bundle. It is not a 5 because several bundle files — references/review-output-classification.md, references/gitcrawl-recovery.md, references/security-auditability.md, references/evals.yaml, references/task-profile.json — are only alluded to ("Gitcrawl, and security-suppression edge cases live in references") without exact filenames, a minor navigation gap matching the 4 anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |