Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The content is highly actionable with a clearly sequenced, gated workflow and concrete commands/templates. Its main weaknesses are redundancy across sections and progressive-disclosure gaps where referenced files (workflow.md, task.py) are not bundled and large templates are inlined.
Suggestions
Dedupe repeated guidance: state 'one question per message', 'action before asking', and 'research-first' once in Core Principles and have later steps reference them instead of restating them.
Bundle the referenced files (workflow.md, the .trellis/scripts/task.py helpers) in references/ or scripts/ so the 'see workflow.md Phase 1.2' and task.py commands resolve to real files, or remove the references.
Move the large PRD template and research/expansion output templates into a referenced file (e.g. references/prd-template.md) and keep SKILL.md as an overview that points to it.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is useful but repetitive — 'one question per message', 'action before asking', and 'research-first' are restated across the CoreRule, Core Principles, Step 3 Gate, Step 4, and Anti-Patterns, so it could be tightened; it does not explain concepts Claude doesn't know, so it is not a 1. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete executable commands (e.g. 'python3 ./.trellis/scripts/task.py create ...') and complete copy-paste-ready markdown templates for the PRD, research, expansion, and final confirmation, matching the fully-executable anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 0–8 are clearly sequenced with explicit gates (Gate A/B/C, complexity table) and an explicit final-confirmation checkpoint; the convergence/approval loop serves as the validation checkpoint for this interview-style workflow. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body references external files that are not present in any bundle — 'workflow.md' (Phase 1.2) and '.trellis/scripts/task.py' — and large PRD/research templates are inlined rather than split into referenced files, so structure exists but references are unresolved and organization could be improved. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |