Conciseness

The body is lean and command-first: 'Check whether there's a `packageManager` field', 'npm auto-symlinks workspace packages', and per-manager command blocks with resulting `package.json` snippets. It assumes Claude's competence — no padding explaining what workspaces or monorepos are — and every section earns its tokens; the only near-redundancy ('npm resolves to local workspace automatically during install') is a useful clarification.

Actionability

Every manager gets a copy-paste-ready command ('yarn workspace @org/app add @org/ui', 'npm install @org/ui --workspace @org/app', 'cd packages/app && bun add @org/ui') plus the exact resulting dependency entry ('workspace:^', '*', 'workspace:*'), and Example 2 gives an executable debug path. The yarn section explicitly scopes to v2+/berry rather than hiding the boundary, so there are no misleading gaps.

Workflow Clarity

The Workflow section sequences identify-consumer → identify-provider → add dependency → 'Verify symlinks created in consumer's `node_modules/`', and Example 2 provides a recovery loop for resolution errors. It falls short of a 5 because the verify step never says how to check (e.g. `ls node_modules/@org/`) and there is no checkpoint for install failure or lockfile effects; it is above 3 because a validation step and an error-recovery example are both explicitly present.

Progressive Disclosure

There is no references/, scripts/, or assets/ bundle, and at ~95 lines of short, well-delimited sections (Detect Package Manager, per-manager sections, Examples, Notes) nothing here warrants splitting into separate files. Navigation is trivial via clear headers, matching the simple-skill organization anchor.

Specificity

Concrete actions are named: 'Link workspace packages in monorepos (npm, yarn, bun)', 'add it as a dependency', 'fix actual linking'. It sits at 4 rather than 5 because the actions reduce to one core operation (linking/wiring dependencies) described from three angles, rather than a comprehensive list of several distinct operations; it is clearly above 3, which requires at most 1-2 concrete actions. The primary voice is third-person imperative ('Link workspace packages'), with 'you' appearing only inside trigger conditions — capability framing like 'You can use this' is absent, so no voice penalty applies.

Completeness

What and when are both explicit: 'Link workspace packages in monorepos (npm, yarn, bun)' states the function, and 'USE WHEN: (1)... (2)... (3)...' enumerates three concrete triggering scenarios with the exact error strings that precede them. It even adds a DO-NOT boundary ('DO NOT patch around with tsconfig paths or manual package.json edits'), exceeding the what+when anchor.

Trigger Term Quality

Exceptionally natural trigger coverage: users hitting this problem literally say 'cannot find module', 'failed to resolve import', 'TS2307', or 'cannot resolve', and the description also includes 'monorepo', '@org/*', 'sibling package', 'wire up their dependencies', and the three manager names. Coverage extends to synonym error strings and the scoped-package glob pattern, matching the comprehensive anchor.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche — inter-package linking inside workspaces for npm/yarn/bun monorepos — with distinct triggers (scoped '@org/*' resolution failures, TS2307). The DO-NOT clause actively separates it from adjacent tsconfig/package.json-editing skills; only the generic 'cannot find module' phrase has any overlap with non-workspace resolution problems, which is minimal.