Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is a well-organized, actionable clarification protocol with copy-paste templates, a worked example, and clear sequenced workflows with confirm checkpoints. Its only weakness is mild redundancy between the Efficiency Rules and the protocol steps and repeated section headers that could be tightened.
Suggestions
Collapse the 'Efficiency Rules' section into the Messy Input Protocol steps (or remove it) since it restates the same clear/slightly-unclear/very-unclear decision logic already implied by the process.
Replace the repeated 'Ask and document:' line under each Full Clarity step with a single lead-in so each step opens directly with its bulleted questions, trimming redundant tokens.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient with concrete templates and a worked example, but the 'Efficiency Rules' section restates the Messy Input Protocol and each Full Clarity step repeats an 'Ask and document:' header, adding redundancy that could be tightened. It is not a 3 because of this repetition, and not a 1 because it does not pad with concepts Claude already knows. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | It provides a copy-paste ready active-context.md template, a concrete WHAT/WHY/SCOPE extraction format, and a full worked dialogue example demonstrating exactly what to do. Per the rubric's instruction-skill note, absence of code is not penalized when guidance is this concrete and specific; it is not a 2 because the guidance is complete and actionable rather than pseudocode or vague direction. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The Messy Input Protocol is a numbered 1-5 sequence with an explicit confirm checkpoint ('Is that right?') and a feedback loop (if gaps exist, ask 1-2 questions, then execute), and the Full Clarity Protocol is a clear 4-step checklist. This matches the top anchor; it is not capped at 2 because the workflow is conversational clarification, not a destructive or batch operation requiring a verify-fix-retry loop. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | There are no bundle files, so the single SKILL.md is scored on its own organization: it has a clear purpose/when header, well-labeled sections (Messy Input Protocol, Full Clarity Protocol, Output Requirements, Rules, Transition), and easy navigation with no nested references. It is not a 2 because the content is cleanly sectioned and self-contained rather than a monolithic wall or poorly-signaled inline material. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |