Content
50%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 commands and rich examples, but it is notably redundant — re-explaining its central concept four times — and its file-writing workflow lacks an explicit post-generation validation step. Progressive disclosure is middling because all content lives in one long, though well-sectioned, file with no reference bundle.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated 'test requirements not implementation' explanations into a single canonical section and cross-reference it instead of restating wrong/correct examples in four places.
Add an explicit validation checkpoint after Step 5 (e.g., re-open the generated checklist and confirm IDs are contiguous and ≥80% of items carry a traceability reference) with a fix-and-retry loop, to lift workflow clarity above 3.
Move the long examples-by-dimension and example-checklist-type catalogs into a reference file (e.g., references/item-examples.md) and link to it, improving progressive disclosure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The core 'test requirements, not implementation' concept is explained four times (opening 'Checklist Purpose', Step 5 wrong/correct examples, the 'Example Checklist Types' section, and the 'Anti-Examples' section) with overlapping wrong/correct item lists, making it noticeably verbose with several padded, redundant sections; it is not a 3 because the redundancy is substantial rather than a few trimmable instances. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | It gives concrete executable commands (`.specify/scripts/bash/check-prerequisites.sh --json`), specific file paths, ID formatting rules (CHK001), and many concrete sample items; it is not a 5 because the core generation is instruction-driven rather than copy-paste code, but guidance is largely executable with only minor gaps. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Execution Steps 1-7 are clearly numbered with a precondition check in Step 1, but the file-writing operation (Step 5 creates/appends checklist files) has no post-write validation or error-recovery feedback loop, so per the destructive/batch-operations cap workflow clarity cannot exceed 3; the sequence alone would warrant higher but the missing validation checkpoint holds it down. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | There are no bundle files (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories) and the skill is a single ~360-line file with good ## section headers, but large blocks that could be split out (examples by dimension, hook output templates, anti-examples) are inlined; this fits 'some structure but content that should be separate is inline' rather than the well-split 4 or the minimal-structure 2. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 12 / 20 Passed |