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92%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 strong, well-structured skill body: a clearly sequenced 7-step workflow with per-step 'Done when' checkpoints, copy-paste-ready commands, full state-coverage testing, and clean one-level-deep disclosure into existing reference and asset files. The main improvement opportunity is trimming repetition — the benchmark/execution-model rule and the shared Step 3 sub-steps are each stated multiple times.
Suggestions
State the 300ms benchmark rule once (e.g., only in Step 1) and have the intro and Step 3 refer back to it, cutting the two restatements of the inline-vs-background thresholds.
Collapse the duplicated sub-steps shared by the two Step 3 execution models into a common core list, appending only the background+cache-specific steps (project root, cache paths, file_age, trigger_scan_bg) to the second model.
Defer the full ANSI palette listing to references/implementation-patterns.md, keeping only one or two example codes inline, since the body already points at the reference for the standard palette.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with genuinely non-obvious, skill-specific knowledge (mkdir-based atomic locks, exit-code-3 .noscan sentinel, macOS version-manager PATH pinning, single-jq-call rule) and avoids teaching Claude things it already knows. It is not a 5 because the 300ms benchmark/execution-model rule is stated three times (intro, Step 1 item 2, Step 3 parentheticals) and the two Step 3 numbered lists duplicate ~5 identical sub-steps (config block, color constants, read stdin, segment functions, compose output). | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable: copy-paste commands for benchmarking, the jq settings.json update, chmod +x, cache-seeding tests with exact cache/lock/noscan paths, and cat -v ANSI verification, plus ready-to-fill executable templates in assets/. The few placeholders (<tool>, <valid empty result JSON>) are inherent to a tool-agnostic skill and are concretely resolved by the templates and worked examples. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1–7 are clearly sequenced and each ends with an explicit "Done when:" validation checkpoint; Step 6 seeds and verifies every designed state; the Troubleshooting section provides error→cause→solution recovery loops (stale lock removal, .err inspection, cache clear + re-run). This matches the top anchor: sequence, validation steps, and feedback loops. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references that all exist in the bundle: references/protocol.md ("Read... at the start of every session"), references/implementation-patterns.md ("when writing or debugging the script"), assets/install.sh.template, and assets/README.md.template, each with a clear read-condition. The only nit — the ANSI palette appears inline as well as in the reference — is a minor redundancy, not a structural gap. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |