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82%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 instruction skill: exact gh/git commands, explicit literal-value substitution, progress-comment lifecycle management, and sensible behavioral guardrails for ambiguity. The main weaknesses are mild redundancy between steps and Behavioral Notes, and a verification step that directs review without specifying a concrete check.
Suggestions
Make Step 5 (Verify) concrete: specify what to check (e.g., re-run the doc-pr review comment's checks on the edited files, confirm markdown renders/links resolve) instead of the open-ended 'Review your edits to ensure they don't introduce new issues'.
De-duplicate guidance: fold 'Never fix issues the writer didn't ask about' (Behavioral Notes) and the repeated literal-value reminders into single statements, and merge Step 4's 'For explanations' bullet into the Step 3 question-handling branch since Step 3 already routes explanations away from editing.
State the working baseline for pushes (e.g., commit directly to the PR branch vs. a new branch) in Step 6 so the git push target is unambiguous in CI.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is efficient — it assumes competence and gives commands rather than concept explanations — but has minor redundancy that could be trimmed: 'Do not use shell variable expansion' guidance is repeated as '(use the literal number from the prompt)', 'Never fix issues the writer didn't ask about' in Behavioral Notes repeats Step 4's 'Only change what was requested', and Step 4's explanations bullet duplicates the question-handling branch in Step 3. Not a 5 ('every token earns its place') because of this duplicated guidance; not a 3 because there is no padded explanation of things Claude already knows. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands throughout: the gh api calls with --jq filters and heredoc bodies, the commit message template, the checklist-format progress comment, and explicit literal-substitution instructions ('use the literal values you extracted from the prompt') remove the main failure mode of placeholder-driven commands. Common request patterns are enumerated with a concrete response path for each — matches the anchor-5 example. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear Steps 1–7 with a verification step (Step 5: 'Review your edits to ensure they don't introduce new issues') and error/ambiguity handling (skip-and-explain, ask-for-clarification behavioral notes) that function as feedback loops. Not a 5 because verification is a soft instruction ('review your edits') rather than a concrete checkable action (e.g., re-running the doc-pr review or a lint/build on changed files), and the push step has no pre-push validation; the sequence and checkpoints are otherwise complete, placing this above the anchor-3 'checkpoints missing or implicit'. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent), and the single-file body is well-sectioned with clear headers and appropriately kept at one level — external pointers (docs/CLAUDE.md for writing standards, /doc-help for editorial rewrites) are clearly signaled and one level deep. Not a 5 because at ~135 lines some content could arguably be consolidated (Behavioral Notes partially restate step guidance), leaving minor organization gaps per the anchor-4 description; the structure is genuinely good, well above anchor-3's 'content that should be separate is inline'. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |