Content
66%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.
The body has a strong sequenced workflow with explicit validation gates and largely concrete guidance for a policy-style skill, but progressive disclosure is badly broken: dangling reference paths, a missing assets directory, and orphaned 'Read when' lines make the navigation layer unreliable, and the Philosophy section duplicates the Procedure verbatim.
Suggestions
Repair the 'Full Context' section: restore the missing file headings for the three orphaned 'Read when:' lines and verify every referenced path resolves inside the bundle (e.g., ./assets is referenced but the directory does not exist; only ./references/context-preservation.md is present and it is never named).
Remove or compress the Philosophy section, whose bullets restate Procedure steps 5-8 nearly verbatim, and fold the thin 'Use' section into the intro line to cut redundancy.
Consolidate the duplicated subagent-routing reference (../../../references/subagent-routing.md appears in both 'Full Context' and 'Subagent Routing') into one clearly labeled section.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient — terse bullets, no padding explaining concepts Claude already knows — but the Philosophy section duplicates Procedure steps nearly verbatim ('Test one hypothesis at a time, and for uncertain links require a prediction...'; 'Reproduce first, then diagnose, then fix' vs. Procedure steps 5-6), and the 'Use' section is a thin near-empty header. Fits the score-3 anchor ('mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'); not 4 because the duplication is more than a minor trim, not 2 because there is no concept over-explanation or heavy padding. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | For an instruction-only skill, guidance is mostly concrete: 'ask at most 2-3 focused questions', 'read only tails or targeted matches, capture [ERROR]/[WARN] markers', 'Resolve available roles from ~/.codex/agents/manifest.json', 'Include schema_version: 1'. Minor gaps keep it from 5: 'check workspace safety' and 'bounded runtime evidence' are undefined, and the key operational details (Linear payload format, contract specifics) delegate to reference files whose content is not in the bundle — not 3, since what is written is specific and executable rather than pseudocode-level. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Procedure is a clearly sequenced 9-step workflow with a dedicated Validation section acting as an explicit checkpoint list, and feedback loops are present ('prefer failing-test-first validation... verify no regressions', 'Fail fast: stop at first failed gate and do not proceed'). This matches the score-5 anchor (clear sequence, explicit validation steps, error-recovery checkpoints); score 4 would leave a checkpoint implicit, which is not the case here. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The 'Full Context' section is broken navigation: three orphaned 'Read when:' lines with no parent file heading, a path ('./assets') whose directory does not exist in the bundle, and most referenced paths (./Infrastructure/references/contract.yaml, evals.yaml, task-profile.json, ../../../references/*.md) resolve to nothing inside the bundle — only ./references exists and its single file (context-preservation.md) is never named. References are effectively buried and unverifiable, fitting the score-2 anchor ('references are buried' / navigation broken) rather than 3, which presumes present, mostly working references that are merely unclearly signaled. | 2 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |