Content
72%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A highly actionable, well-structured skill body with concrete executable tool calls and clear fallback/error guidance. Its two weaknesses are modest redundancy between the Domain Reasoning and Reasoning Framework sections and the absence of an explicit verify-before-report checkpoint in the retrieval workflow.
Suggestions
Add an explicit validation checkpoint in Phase 2/3: before reporting, verify the returned accession, organism, and strain match the request (the skill's own 'LOOK UP DON'T GUESS' principle applies to results too, not just queries).
Merge 'Domain Reasoning' and 'Reasoning Framework' into a single section to remove the duplicated coverage of the RefSeq/GenBank hierarchy, accession guidance, and cross-database reconciliation.
Consider demoting one of the two redundant ALL-CAPS directives ('IMPORTANT' and 'LOOK UP DON'T GUESS') into a single concise rule to reduce token weight.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is largely lean and table-driven with no concept-explanation padding, but the 'Domain Reasoning' and 'Reasoning Framework' sections substantially restate each other (both cover the RefSeq-over-GenBank hierarchy, accession guidance, and cross-database reconciliation), and the bold ALL-CAPS directives add token weight without proportional value, leaving it 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' rather than fully lean. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | It provides concrete, executable Python tool calls with named parameters (NCBI_search_nucleotide, NCBI_get_sequence, ena_get_entry), explicit fallback chains, a parameter reference, and an error-handling table, matching the level-3 'fully executable code/commands; specific examples' anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 0-3 are clearly sequenced with decision trees, fallback chains, and an error table, but there is no validation/verification checkpoint: nothing tells Claude to confirm the retrieved sequence actually matches the requested organism/strain or accession before reporting, and the rubric caps workflow clarity at 2 when validation is missing for retrieval-style operations. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is a single self-contained SKILL.md with no bundle files (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent), and the content is organized into well-labeled one-level sections (Workflow, Phases, Tool Reference, Search Parameters Reference) with no nested references, matching the simple-skill allowance for scoring 3 on well-organized content. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |