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81%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 well-structured reference-skill body: five clearly sequenced workflows with explicit grounding rules, per-branch fallbacks, and sound one-level-deep routing to companion files. The main deductions are repeated quoting rules across sections, a missing citation-format example, and a companion-file layout that is referenced but never inventoried.
Suggestions
State the excerpt/quoting rule once in the grounding rules and reference it from the workflow sections instead of restating 'safe excerpts' in each one — this would tighten conciseness without losing the constraint.
Add a one-line example of the expected citation format (e.g. how a transcript line-range citation should look) so the 'cite by line range' instruction is executable rather than implied.
Open with a short inventory of the companion bundle (outline.md — section map; transcript.md — full talk; quote.md — vetted highlights) and resolve the level-name uncertainty on line 48 by either confirming the five level names or instructing the reader to treat them as unverified.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense procedural guidance with no padding and no explanations of concepts Claude already knows, but the quoting rule ('quote short, non-sensitive excerpts', 'check quote.md first', 'safe excerpts') is restated in nearly every workflow section, and line 48 carries self-hedging meta-commentary ('the rest are inferred from "zero-index based list"...'). This fits anchor 4 — efficient with minor trimmable redundancy — rather than anchor 5's 'every token earns its place'. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and executable for an instruction-only skill: precise lookup chains ('outline.md → "Named frameworks / concepts" → "AI Maturity Model"'), file-level routing ('read outline.md to locate the relevant section, then read that section of transcript.md'), explicit fallback behavior ('say "the talk doesn't address this"'), and a concrete workshop cadence ('repeat every 3–4 weeks'). It falls short of anchor 5 because the demanded line-range citation format is never shown by example, and the level names are left partially uncertain rather than given as a definitive list. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Five distinct workflows, each a clearly numbered sequence with explicit verification checkpoints and error-recovery feedback loops: 'If a claim isn't in transcript.md, say "the talk doesn't address this"', 'If the framework genuinely doesn't fit the user's situation, say so', 'If the user hasn't described their state for a dimension, ask before scoring', and 'If the answer genuinely isn't in the transcript, say so explicitly'. These per-branch fallbacks match the anchor-5 pattern of explicit validation with feedback loops; no destructive or batch operations exist, so the cap does not apply. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body acts as an index that routes to three companion files (outline.md, transcript.md, quote.md), each one level deep and each with a stated purpose ('quote.md contains pre-extracted safe highlights... check quote.md first'). However, no bundle inventory is given — the referenced files are bare sibling paths with no upfront listing of what each contains or where they live, and none ship alongside SKILL.md in this copy, leaving navigation partially unverifiable. This places it at anchor 4 (good structure, minor organization gaps) rather than anchor 5's fully easy navigation. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |