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.
The body is well-structured and highly actionable, with excellent progressive disclosure through a verified, one-level-deep reference tree and clear destructive-operation guardrails. Its primary weakness is redundancy — the same facts are restated across the intro, Current Rules, and Do Not sections.
Suggestions
De-duplicate the channel event-log path and the node_modules/global-npm warning: state each once (e.g., in Current Rules) and reference it from elsewhere to tighten token use.
Convert the "Do Not" guardrails into a brief pre-edit validation checklist (check template-hashes -> prefer .new sidecar -> verify knob exists) to give the destructive-customization workflow an explicit feedback loop.
Surface the unlisted reference groups (claude-code, core, how-to-modify, meta) in the References section or note they exist, so the navigation map matches the actual bundle.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is information-dense and assumes Claude's competence (no basic-concept padding), but several facts are repeated across sections (the channel event-log path appears 3+ times, the node_modules/global-npm warning appears in the intro, Current Rules, and Do Not), which is more than the minor trimming the level-4 anchor allows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | It supplies concrete, executable guidance throughout — specific file paths, real CLI commands ("trellis channel spawn --agent <name>", "trellis workflow --template <id>", "task.py create --parent <slug>"), and exact config keys — with only minor high-level hand-offs to reference files, matching the mostly-executable anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | "How To Use" gives a clear numbered reading sequence and the "Do Not" section supplies explicit guardrails for destructive customization (check ".trellis/.template-hashes.json first", prefer ".new" sidecars, cross-check config before claiming a knob exists), but these are cautionary checkpoints rather than a formal validate-fix-retry loop. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a true overview that delegates detail to a well-organized references tree grouped into Local Architecture, Platform Files, and Local Customization, each entry carrying a one-line description; references are one level deep, clearly signaled, and all referenced paths exist on disk. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |