Conciseness

The body is lean — a one-sentence overview, three when-to-use bullets, and four terse steps — with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows; the table template, empty-state message, and next-action offer all earn their tokens.

Actionability

Guidance is copy-paste ready: executable scan commands ("ls docs/handoffs/*.md 2>/dev/null"), the exact frontmatter fields to extract (created, topic, branch, trigger, restored), exact table formats, and exact empty-state and offer text cover the active, archived, and no-handoff cases.

Workflow Clarity

The four steps (scan, parse frontmatter, display with an explicit sort order, offer next action) are clearly sequenced with a defined branch for the empty state; the skill is read-only, so no validation checkpoints are required and the simple-skill clarity exception applies.

Progressive Disclosure

This is a small single-file skill with no bundle files and no content that warrants separate references; the sections (Overview, When to Use, The Process, Pairs With) are well-organized, matching the under-50-lines exception for a top score.

Specificity

"lists active and archived handoffs with their status, date, topic, and branch" names the domain plus concrete output fields across two categories, which is more specific than anchor 3's bare action list but rests on a single verb rather than the multiple concrete actions of anchor 5.

Completeness

Both parts are explicit: the what ("lists active and archived handoffs with their status, date, topic, and branch") and the when ("Use when viewing available handoff documents"), but the when-clause is a single, somewhat circular trigger rather than the concrete user situations exemplified at anchor 5.

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms like "handoff documents", "handoffs", "active", and "archived" give good keyword coverage, but common variations users might say ("handoff history", "list handoffs", "session handoff") are missing, so it falls short of anchor 5's comprehensive synonym coverage.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The listing niche is clearly scoped and distinct from unrelated skills, but "viewing available handoff documents" carries minor overlap risk with the closely related sibling skills the bundle itself names (rubypowers:handoff, handoff-resume), matching anchor 4 rather than anchor 5's minimal conflict risk.