Content
75%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 tight, well-structured instruction skill with a concrete entry template and clear workflow. It would reach the top band with a worked filled-in example, an explicit append-verification step, and slightly tighter prose.
Suggestions
Add one short worked example showing a completed entry (with realistic file path, symptom, smell, right-shape bullets, and severity) so the template is unambiguously copy-paste ready.
Insert an explicit post-append verification checkpoint in step 4 (e.g., re-read the file to confirm the entry landed and the trailing separator is intact).
Trim minor redundant prose such as 'that's the whole point of the entry' and the repeated docs-location parenthetical to push conciseness to the top band.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Lean and assumes Claude's competence (no padded explanation of what tech debt is, no library tutorials), with only minor trimmable prose such as the parenthetical 'that's the whole point of the entry'. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides a complete, copy-paste-ready entry template with concrete field semantics and explicit rules (global monotonic numbering, lowercase paths, YYYY-MM-DD dates), but lacks a worked filled-in example that would seal it as fully copy-paste ready. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear five-step sequence with embedded guards (duplicate detection in step 2, insufficient-context question in step 1); the operation is an append so the destructive/batch validation cap does not apply, but there is no explicit post-append verification checkpoint. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized into clear sections (Workflow, Notes on style, When NOT to use) with no bundle files and no content that clearly belongs in a separate file; sits just above the simple-skill line at ~85 lines, keeping it at 4 rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |