Content
77%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 content is well-structured with strong progressive disclosure, a clear validated workflow, and concrete actionable templates. Its chief weakness is conciseness: key rules are restated across the Core Concepts, Guidelines, and Gotchas sections, inflating the token budget without adding new information.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated rules that appear in Core Concepts, Guidelines, and Gotchas — keep one authoritative statement and cross-reference it, rather than restating 'pair every persistence instruction with a verification gate' three times.
Tighten the prose sections (e.g., 'Persistence Cuts Both Ways', 'The Verification Bottleneck') into bullet points so each rule earns its tokens.
Move the 'Generalizing Beyond Mathematics' transformation table into the task-brief-template reference, keeping only a one-line pointer inline, to further reduce body length.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is substantive and expert-level rather than padding basics, but the same rules recur across Core Concepts, Guidelines, and Gotchas (persistence paired with verification, predicate-based return, blocked-route bookkeeping, rejecting status reports), and several prose sections could be tightened without losing meaning. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready artifacts — an 8-step Brief-Writing Workflow, a brief skeleton template, a weak-to-strong transformation example, a generalization table, and a pre-launch evaluation checklist — with only minor gaps (placeholder fields in the skeleton are justified flexibility). | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Brief-Writing Workflow is a clearly sequenced 8-step process culminating in an explicit red-team validation step ('Red-team the brief before launch... and patch every credible answer'), and the Pre-Launch Evaluation section supplies a yes/no checklist with feedback-loop guidance — matching the clear-sequence-with-validation-and-checklists anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview that offloads detailed material to one-level-deep, clearly signaled references — cdc-prompt-annotated.md, research-evidence.md, vendor-guidance.md, task-brief-template.md — all of which exist under ./references/ and are listed again with descriptions in the References section, giving easy navigation. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |