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 and clearly sequenced — a model of concrete instruction for an instruction-only skill — but it pays for that with heavy redundancy and a monolithic structure. The core concept and its examples are repeated across multiple sections, and material that belongs in one-level-deep reference files is fully inlined.
Suggestions
Deduplicate the 'test requirements, not implementation' explanations: state the concept once in the purpose section, keep one canonical wrong/correct pair, and drop the repetitions in step 5, the Example Checklist Types, and the Anti-Examples 'Key Differences' recap — this alone would cut roughly a third of the file.
Move the example catalogs (EXAMPLES BY QUALITY DIMENSION, Example Checklist Types & Sample Items, Anti-Examples) into a `references/checklist-item-examples.md` with clearly signaled links from the main body, and put the extension-hooks pre/post logic into `references/hooks.md`.
Tighten step 2's question-generation algorithm: the five-archetype list with per-archetype examples could be compressed to the archetype names plus one example each, since the surrounding rules already constrain behavior.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The 'unit tests for requirements, not implementation' concept is restated at least five times (purpose section, core principle, wrong/correct pairs in step 5, the dedicated Anti-Examples section with 'Key Differences', and the sample checklist types), and the same example items ("prominent display", "logo fails to load", "hover states") recur across sections. This is 'several unnecessary explanations or padded sections' — noticeably verbose — rather than the isolated tightening opportunities of anchor 3. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | The skill gives concrete, executable guidance: a specific command (`.specify/scripts/bash/check-prerequisites.sh --json`), exact file-handling rules (append to existing files, continue from last CHK ID), item structure with traceability markers, and many fully-formed example items. Minor gaps (e.g., no sample extensions.yml shape, no example checklist-template.md content) keep it below anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-7 are clearly sequenced with pre/post execution hook checks, explicit error handling (skip invalid YAML silently), and safe append-only file behavior. It is not anchor 5 because validation is mostly implicit (e.g., no explicit checkpoint that generated items were reviewed against the prohibited patterns before writing), though the non-destructive nature avoids the cap at 3. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body has good section structure, but it is a ~370-line monolithic file with no references/ bundle: the dimension-by-dimension example catalogs, sample checklist types, and anti-examples clearly belong in separate reference files. This fits 'Some structure but could be better organized; content that should be separate is inline' rather than anchor 4's 'most content is appropriately placed'. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 13 / 20 Passed |