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.
The body is an excellent operational playbook: fully concrete paths, commands, and a validated verify-retry workflow that respects destructive-operation constraints (teardown rules, sample-data protection). Its one real defect is that the entire conventions reference layer it points to is missing from the bundle, leaving the progressive-disclosure promise unfulfilled.
Suggestions
Ship the referenced bundle files: add references/conventions-{language}.md for each supported suite (javascript, python, go, java, csharp, csharp-ef-core, mongosh) and references/bluehawk-tags.md, or remove the references and inline the minimal essential patterns if the files are not intended to be bundled.
Deduplicate the mongosh and C#-EF-Core guidance: Step 1 already contains the routing rules, so the bolded 'Mongosh is fundamentally different' and 'C# EF Core is a separate suite' callouts in Step 2 can collapse into one-line pointers to their reference files.
Consider moving the Step 2 directory table plus the per-language template paths into a single references/suites.md table so the SKILL.md body stays a lean overview of the workflow.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with Grove-specific knowledge Claude cannot know (suite directory table, routing rules, template paths, snippet path format) and wastes almost nothing on general concepts. It falls short of anchor 5 due to redundant passages — the mongosh and C#-EF-Core distinctions are each explained twice (once in Step 1's routing rules, again as bolded callouts in Step 2), and parentheticals like '(they require build config, go.mod, package.json, etc.)' could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is copy-paste ready throughout: an exact per-suite directory table, exact template file paths per language ('examples/example-stub.js', 'src/main/java/example/ExampleStub.java'), a fill-in-the-blank subagent prompt with concrete commands, a literal snippet path format, and an explicit retry budget ('max 3 attempts'). Placeholders like '{test-command}' are explicitly resolved by pointer to the suite CLAUDE.md and /grove-run Step 3, which is appropriate delegation rather than vagueness. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Twelve clearly sequenced steps with explicit checkpoints: user confirmation of language before any work ('Wait for explicit confirmation'), a filesystem existence check with a hard stop, a verification subagent that runs the test twice for idempotency, runs the snip command to validate Bluehawk markup, and a bounded fix-retry loop ('max 3 attempts... After 3 failed attempts, stop and report'). This matches the anchor-5 pattern of explicit validation with feedback loops for error recovery. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The design is good — per-language conventions and Bluehawk tag details are split into clearly signaled, one-level-deep references ('Read references/conventions-go.md... for detailed file patterns', 'Read references/bluehawk-tags.md for the full set of tags') — but the bundle contains no references/ directory at all, so every referenced path (conventions-{language}.md for all seven languages, conventions-csharp-ef-core.md, bluehawk-tags.md) is dangling. Navigation is therefore broken at the exact layer the body depends on, which is worse than the 'minor organization gaps' of anchor 4. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |