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100%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 is a lean, fully operational overview: a sequenced workflow with explicit gates (decision table before code, NEEDS-INPUT before verdicts, lint before posting, checks before done), concrete verdict semantics and consent boundaries, and exemplary progressive disclosure that maps each verified bundle file to the step that needs it. It reads as a model instruction-only skill with no padding, no borrowed-knowledge explanations, and no validation gaps.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~75-line body teaches nothing Claude already knows: every line is policy or procedure (verdict definitions with acceptance criteria, consent boundaries, a 7-step workflow, a definition-of-done checklist), and the opening four-line stance paragraph is the skill's operating philosophy rather than padding. It meets anchor 5 ("lean and efficient; assumes Claude's competence; every token earns its place"); anchor 4 would require over-explanation that could be trimmed, and the only candidate — the checklist's overlap with workflow steps — serves a distinct verification function, which anchor 5 of workflow_clarity explicitly rewards. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | As an instruction-only skill (per the rubric's scoring note), the guidance is fully executable: findings get IDs with reviewer words attached, verdicts have named categories with decision criteria, the decision table must be published before code changes, replies are per-thread with per-verdict content, DEFER items get two-paragraph ticket drafts, and there are runnable commands ("Run `<plugin root>/scripts/prose-lint.py` on every reply and on the report") plus a concrete decision-table template in respond.md. This matches anchor 5's "specific examples cover the common cases"; anchor 4's "minor gaps" standard is not met since even delegation points ("Commit per the `/submit` phase 2 rules") name exactly where the rules live. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step workflow is strictly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops: cross-validation evidence required per assertion, "Publish the full decision table before changing any code", NEEDS-INPUT questions batched and waited on, "Run `prose-lint.py` ... and fix every finding" before posting, pre-push checks and CI green at resubmission, and a closing definition-of-done checklist. This matches anchor 5 ("explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery; checklists for complex processes"); anchor 4 would require missing checkpoints, and none are. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a true overview that splits detail into three one-level-deep reference files (triage.md, respond.md, rationalizations.md), all verified present in the bundle and holding exactly what the table claims, and a "Required references" table signals each file with the step to read it and what it holds — stronger signaling than the anchor-5 example's bare "See FORMS.md" links. The two plugin-root paths (`../../assets/writing.md`, `scripts/prose-lint.py`) are explicitly defined ("`<plugin root>` is two directories above it"), single-hop shared assets rather than nested reference chains, so the anchor-1/anchor-2 failures (buried or 2+-level-deep references) do not apply. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 20 / 20 Passed |