Content
70%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 a well-engineered orchestrator spec: phase sequencing, mechanical gates, and error-recovery loops are exemplary, and direct instructions are copy-paste concrete. It loses points on token efficiency (the Architecture/Modes/Phase 5–6/Risks/Key Principles sections repeat the same rules four to five times) and on progressive disclosure as delivered — the skill is designed as a thin index over rules/*.md and templates/*.md files that are not present in this bundle, breaking the delegation chain that its most important procedures depend on.
Suggestions
Ship the rules/*.md and templates/*.md files in the bundle (or inline their critical content): the body delegates ten core procedures — complexity triage, evidence resolution, preflight, reproduction, handoff, verification — to rule files that are absent, leaving the pipeline unexecutable as delivered.
Collapse the duplicated threshold/lane statements: the 92% auto-implement rule, lane triggers, and no-force-proceed rules each appear in the Architecture diagram, Modes table, Phase 5, Phase 6, Risks, and Key Principles — keep one authoritative statement plus the phase diagram and delete the rest.
Trim the oversized structured-error blocks (e.g. the Step 5a reproduction-gate error) to the essential failure message plus a pointer to the governing rule file; the full enumerated recovery text is repeated context the rule file already carries.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The operational core (tables, regexes, commands, gates) is dense and information-rich, but the ~810-line body restates the same lane/threshold/gate rules repeatedly — the 92% auto-implement rule appears in the Architecture diagram, the Modes table, Phase 5, the Risks table, and Key Principle 6, and the 12-item Key Principles section largely re-summarises earlier sections ("Auto-implement at ≥ 92 % is fully autonomous. No human confirmation."). This fits anchor 3 — mostly efficient but with clear tightening opportunities — and not 2, since almost none of it explains concepts Claude already knows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Highly executable where it speaks directly: exact detection regexes ("Matches `https?://linear\.app/.+/issue/`"), exact commands ("gh pr view --json url,isDraft,headRefName", "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"), verbatim fail-closed error blocks, closed best-effort reason lists, and a copy-paste output template. It is not 5: several key procedures defer to files absent from this bundle — "Walk the 14-row signal table in rules/complexity-triage.md", evidence-resolution, and reproduction layer routing all live in rules/*.md that are not shipped — so an executor following only what is written hits real gaps. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 0–8 are explicitly sequenced with three mechanical validation gates (Step 5a reproduction gate, Step 6.pre protected-branch assertion, Step 7.pre draft-PR assertion), each with a deterministic procedure and fail-closed structured error, plus feedback loops (route back to Phase 2.5, CEGIS 3-round cap with standard-lane fallback, simple→complex triage upgrade). This matches the anchor-5 pattern of validate → fix → retry with checklists for a complex process. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Signaling is excellent — "This SKILL.md is a thin index... Load only what the current phase asks for", per-phase Rule/Template loading tables, one-level-deep references — but scored against the actual bundle: of the 13 referenced paths only references/research-sources.md exists; the 10 rules/*.md and 2 templates/*.md files the body depends on are absent, so the index points at missing files. Not 4 or 5: a thin index whose target files are not present cannot count as well-organized disclosure; not 2: the in-body structure is clear and every reference is systematically tabulated rather than buried. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |