Content
71%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 well-organized orchestrator skill body with a clear eight-phase workflow, dense reference tables, and mostly executable code, held back by a bundle defect: the single detail file it delegates to (phase_details.md) is absent, and several snippets are pseudocode. Fixing the bundle and adding QC failure-handling would raise workflow clarity and progressive disclosure.
Suggestions
Include phase_details.md in the skill bundle (e.g., under references/) or remove the four pointers to it — currently every 'See: phase_details.md' reference resolves to a nonexistent file, breaking the skill's only progressive-disclosure path.
Consolidate the repeated 'See: phase_details.md' mentions into a single navigation section (as done in the Detailed Reference block) to reclaim tokens and make the deferred content discoverable in one place.
Add explicit feedback loops for Phase 1-2 QC: state what to do when a dataset fails QC or common samples fall below the minimum of 10 (e.g., drop the layer and proceed pairwise, or stop and report), which currently has no error-recovery path.
Replace the pathway-score pseudocode ("pathway_score = mean(abs(rna_fc) + ...)") and the correlation loop with runnable code that defines the input structures, matching the quality of the sample-matching function.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is largely efficient — dense tables for data types, clustering methods, and skill coordination, plus short code snippets, assuming Claude's competence. It is not a 5 because of padding: the "See: phase_details.md" pointer is repeated four times (after Workflow Overview, Core Operations, Use Cases, and again in a Detailed Reference section), and editorializing like "Not every discordance is noise; some are the most interesting biology" could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Mostly executable guidance: the sample-matching function is complete and runnable, the correlation snippet names exact functions (spearmanr) with expected direction, and the ToolUniverse skill table maps tasks to named skills and phases. It falls short of 5 because the pathway section is pseudocode ("pathway_score = mean(abs(rna_fc) + ...)" over undefined variables) and the correlation loop references undefined rna/protein structures — common cases aren't fully copy-paste ready. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The eight-phase sequence is explicit and well-ordered, and the "Quantified Minimums" table plus a dedicated Phase 1 QC provide concrete checkpoints (>=2 datasets, >=10 common samples). It is not 5 because there are no explicit feedback loops — nothing says what to do when QC fails or common samples fall below the minimum — leaving validation gaps consistent with anchor 4 rather than anchor 5's 'explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery'. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The structure is well-designed — an overview body deferring all implementation detail to a single one-level-deep reference — but that reference (phase_details.md, cited four times) does not exist in the bundle; no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories are present. Per the guideline to score against the actual bundle structure, every detailed pointer is broken, so navigation fails despite the clear signaling. It scores above 2 because the body itself is appropriately structured and nothing is deeply nested, but the missing file is more than the 'minor organization gaps' allowed by anchor 4. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |