Content
82%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, highly actionable body: executable code for all three OpenFDA endpoints, a clear sequenced workflow, and genuinely non-obvious gotchas (404-on-empty, list-valued SPL fields, NDC segment formats, recall status values). The main weaknesses are mild redundancy with the frontmatter description, a missing zero-match fallback loop in the workflow, and no use of reference files for detail that has grown past SKILL.md scale.
Suggestions
Add an explicit fallback step to the workflow: if the ingredient query on openfda.generic_name returns no matches, retry with openfda.brand_name, then the raw extracted span, before concluding 'no label found'.
Trim the opening paragraph and 'When to use' section, which restate the frontmatter description almost verbatim — the body can start at 'The three endpoints'.
Move the endpoint key-fields table, edge-case gotchas, and standards links into a references/ file (e.g., references/openfda-api.md) and link to it one level deep, keeping SKILL.md to quick start and workflow.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is efficient — a dense endpoint table, executable quick start, terse workflow and gotchas — but the opening paragraph and "When to use" section largely restate the frontmatter description, and "Brand vs generic" explains near-common knowledge. These are minor trim candidates, matching the anchor 'Efficient; minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed' rather than the every-token-earns-its-place level 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | The quick start is copy-paste-ready executable Python covering all three endpoints with real query strings ('openfda.generic_name:"warfarin"', 'status:"Ongoing"'), 404-as-empty handling, exact field paths, and worked output handling — fully executable and covering the common cases, matching the level-5 anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 6-step workflow is clearly sequenced (normalize first, label, NDC, enforcement, cache, attach) with checkpoints such as gating alerts on classification and filtering to status:"Ongoing". It falls short of level 5 because there is no explicit validate/retry feedback loop (e.g., what to do when the ingredient query returns zero matches — retry with brand name is only implied in the gotchas). Level 3 does not apply since checkpoints are explicit and the operation is non-destructive, so no cap applies. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist and the ~125-line body is well organized into endpoints, quick start, workflow, hand-off, edge cases, and standards sections. It is not level 5 because nothing is offloaded to reference files despite some material (the key-fields table, full gotcha list, standards links) being reference-file sized; it is above level 3 because nothing is buried and the structure is clean for a single-file skill. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |