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67%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 compact, single-purpose instruction skill with genuinely actionable per-section guidance and a clear output contract. Its main weakness is that its one critical dependency — the issue template — lives at a relative path outside the skill bundle and is not resolvable, leaving the core instruction 'generate using the template' without a concrete, guaranteed-available artifact.
Suggestions
Copy the bug-report template into the skill bundle (e.g. references/bug-report.md) and reference it with a bundle-relative path, or inline the template structure into SKILL.md so the skill is executable without external repository context.
Sequence the workflow explicitly: put the 'search for existing open or closed issues' step first (as step 1) rather than mid-way through, so the order of operations is unambiguous.
Trim the duplicated scope statements (lines 5-8 repeat the same restriction twice) and drop the rationale sentence 'This helps prioritize and design the right solution' since the template's own comments already convey it.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean instruction-giving with no concept explanations Claude already knows, but the scope is stated twice ("This prompt only applies to generating Bug Report issues" followed by "This skill is only for generating the markdown content for a new issue") and "This helps prioritize and design the right solution" explains a rationale the template comments already provide. These minor redundancies keep it just below the 'lean and efficient; every token earns its place' anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Per-section guidance is fairly concrete (title format "fix: [what is the issue?] in [where is the issue?]", output as a markdown code block only, strip template comments), but the central artifact is only a relative link to "../../ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug-report.md" which does not exist relative to the skill bundle, so the skill cannot actually be executed as written. This matches the 'some concrete guidance but incomplete; missing key details' anchor rather than the mostly-executable level 4. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | This is a simple, non-destructive, single-task skill ("Do not create or modify any existing Github issues") whose single action is unambiguous: produce a bug report markdown code block from the template. The 'search for existing open or closed issues that overlap' step appears mid-document as an afterthought rather than as a first sequenced step, a minor sequencing gap that keeps it at 4 rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The ~40-line body appropriately inlines everything it needs and its sole reference (the bug-report template) is one level deep and clearly signaled as a markdown link. It falls short of 5 because the body is headerless prose with no section organization and the single reference points outside the skill directory (../../ISSUE_TEMPLATE/) rather than to a bundled file, a minor organization gap. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |