Content
56%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 highly actionable with concrete templates and a clear, checklist-validated workflow, but it is noticeably verbose — classification guidance is triplicated across three sections and several prose sections pad without instructing. With no bundle files, the long template library is inlined where a one-level reference file would keep the SKILL.md lean.
Suggestions
Merge the classification guidance into one place: keep the Step 2 classify table and delete the overlapping "When to Update" trigger table and the Interactive Mode question lists.
Move the ~140-line template library to references/templates.md and keep one-line pointers in SKILL.md, keeping only the mandatory infra/cross-layer template inline.
Cut the "Core Philosophy" and "Relationship to Other Commands" sections, or reduce them to 2-3 lines, since they repeat motivations already stated in the opening and add no executable guidance.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Classification guidance is repeated three times (the "When to Update" table, Step 2's classify table, and the Interactive Mode questions), the 7-section list appears in both "Mandatory Output" and the template, and "Core Philosophy", "Relationship to Other Commands", and "Key Insight" prose pad without instructing — several padded sections, though the templates themselves earn their place (anchor 2, not 1 or 3). | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides copy-paste-ready markdown templates with exact paths (.trellis/spec/<layer>/*.md), a bash command, and exact section skeletons; the gap is that no filled-in concrete example of the mandatory 7-section template is shown (anchor 4, not 5). | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 5-step sequence (identify, classify, read target, update, update index) with an explicit Quality Checklist as a final verification checkpoint; minor gap is no post-update verification step such as re-reading for duplication (anchor 4, not 5). | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist and the entire ~350-line skill is inline; the ~140-line templates section is a clear candidate for a references/templates.md file, though the SKILL.md itself is well-organized with clear headers (anchor 3, not 2 or 4). | 3 / 5 |
Total | 13 / 20 Passed |