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 well-structured, largely executable guide to driving AlexisHR through the Membrane CLI, with strong state-handling checkpoints for connection setup. Its main weaknesses are an empty 'Popular actions' section that promises but lists nothing, a dangling 'Step 2' reference with no defined step numbering, and no error-handling guidance for action execution.
Suggestions
Populate the 'Popular actions' section with 3-5 concrete, commonly used actions (e.g., listing employees, requesting time off) with example inputs, or remove the section if discovery is the intended path.
Fix the workflow numbering: define 'Step 2' (or replace 'skip to Step 2' with the actual section name, e.g., 'Searching for actions') and label or drop the unpaired '1b'.
Add brief error-handling guidance for `membrane action run` failures (checking the response for errors and how to recover), since running actions is the skill's primary operation.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is efficient and command-driven — install, login, connection, action, and proxy commands are presented directly with a flag table — with only minor trims needed: the 'used by HR professionals and managers in small to medium-sized businesses' intro sentence, the filler line 'Use action names and parameters as needed.', and the discovery command duplicated in both 'Searching for actions' and 'Popular actions'. This matches 'minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed' rather than the every-token-earns-its-place level 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete copy-paste commands cover the full path (`npm install -g @membranehq/cli@latest`, `membrane login`, `membrane connection ensure ... --json`, `--wait` polling, `action run` with `--input`), matching 'concrete code or commands with minor gaps'. It falls short of level 5 because the 'Popular actions' section lists no actual actions and there is no realistic end-to-end example (e.g., running an employee-list action with a concrete input). | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence (install → login → ensure connection → poll state → discover → run → proxy fallback) is clear with real checkpoints: `--wait` long-polling, an explicit decision table for READY / CLIENT_ACTION_REQUIRED / CONFIGURATION_ERROR states, and re-poll guidance after user actions. It misses level 5 because 'Step 2' is referenced but never defined (and '1b' has no '1a'), and there is no error-handling or verification guidance for failed `action run` calls. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | As a single-file skill with no bundle files, the body has clear, logically ordered sections, no dangling file references, and appropriately inline-scale content — matching 'Good structure; most content is appropriately placed' with minor gaps. It is not level 5 because of the duplicated discovery instructions, the empty 'Popular actions' section, and connection-state troubleshooting detail that could be split out. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |