Content
85%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.
A highly actionable, well-sequenced audit runbook: every surface has an executable query, failure diagnosis is ordered by root cause, and validation discipline is stated as explicit rules. The main gaps are token efficiency at the margins (anecdotes and embedded version numbers) and the absence of any progressive disclosure — all reference-grade detail is inlined in a single long file.
Suggestions
Move the repo-specific lookup material — the Dependabot updater failure-cause table (section 4), the Buildkite log-reading recipes (section 6), and the per-channel release-parity checks (section 9) — into one-level-deep reference files under references/, keeping SKILL.md as a checklist that signals when to load each.
Trim or relocate time-sensitive evidence ("186 commits behind", "Twenty Spring alerts", the 5.15.0 vs 9.1.0 search.maven.org note) into a short 'known stale patterns' section so the main flow stays lean and undated.
The trigger-phrase-style guidance in the body's rules (e.g., the untrusted-input and commit-gate pointers) is valuable but could be compressed to a two-line pointer list, since the referenced .opencode/rules files already carry the detail.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with non-obvious, repo-specific knowledge (exact gh/bk invocations, token-scope quirks, stale-alert patterns) and wastes almost no tokens on concepts Claude already knows. Minor trimmable material remains: practice anecdotes ("a checkout 186 commits behind", "Twenty Spring alerts were exactly this") and inline version numbers (5.15.0 vs 9.1.0) that are not quarantined in an old-patterns section. It sits at 'efficient with minor instances that could be trimmed' rather than 'every token earns its place'. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Nearly everything is copy-paste executable: complete gh api commands with jq projections, the Dependabot dismissal PATCH with the 280-character cap and valid reasons listed, a symptom→cause→fix table for updater failures, per-channel release-parity curl checks, and a concrete report template. Specific examples cover the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps are explicitly sequenced with rationale ("Check the checkout is current — do this FIRST"; diagnosis order where "each rules out the next"), and validation is enforced throughout: "Never report a surface as clean without running its query", prove non-applicability before dismissing, verify worktrees for gitignored planning files and live sessions before removal. The batch/dismissal operations carry their evidence-recording feedback loops, so no cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure is strong (numbered surfaces, rules, report format) and cross-skill pointers (issue-review, pipeline-investigation, release-management) are clearly signaled, but there is no bundle at all and ~340 lines of reference-grade detail — the Dependabot failure-cause table, Buildkite log-reading recipes, per-channel parity checks — all live inline where they could be split into one-level-deep reference files. This fits 'content that should be separate is inline' better than 'most content is appropriately placed'. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |