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88%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 dense, disciplined body: mode dispatch, inline executable commands, per-phase validation gates, and a rollback decision tree, with detail correctly pushed to a single reference. The one real defect is at the bundle level: `references/cluster-upgrade.md`, which the body depends on for the PDB query, rotation tables and validation block, is not present in the bundle, leaving the drain, rotate and validate modes non-executable as staged.
Suggestions
Ship references/cluster-upgrade.md with the skill bundle — the drain, rotate and validate modes defer to it ("Run the PDB query from the reference", "Run the reference's validation block") and it is missing, so those modes cannot execute as staged.
Inline the short PDB blocker query and one concrete per-pool rotation example in the drain/rotate sections so those modes work from SKILL.md alone even when the reference is not loaded.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Lean and disciplined throughout: "Never run `update-cluster-version`, `update-nodegroup-version` or a drain yourself: produce the commands, the checks and the rollback, and let the user run them", "Flag live-only objects as ownerless: nothing will reconcile them after the upgrade", "Order pools by blast radius, smallest first". No background on Kubernetes or upgrade concepts, and the mode-dispatch table replaces prose; every sentence instructs. The table/section overlap is navigation structure, not padding — anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Inline copy-paste-ready commands for scan, add-ons and rollback: "pluto detect-files -d <repo dir> --target-versions k8s=v<target>", "aws eks describe-addon-versions --kubernetes-version <target> --addon-name <name>", "aws eks update-cluster-version --kubernetes-version <previous>". However "Run the PDB query from the reference", "Per pool type, from the reference's Phase 5 table" and "Run the reference's validation block" defer key executable detail to `references/cluster-upgrade.md`, which is absent from the bundle, so drain/rotate/validate are not executable as staged. Anchor 4 (mostly executable, gaps); not 5 because the common drain and rotation cases lack verifiable commands, not 3 because the body's own commands are complete and runnable. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear sequence with explicit checkpoints and failure recovery: "Run `scan`, `addons` and `drain` and fold their findings into one ordered checklist", per-pool gates "After each pool: no `Pending` pods, all nodes `Ready`, GitOps converged", a rollback decision tree keyed on "what failed and when the control plane upgrade completed", and a validate mode that reports "each check as pass or fail". Validation is explicit in every phase, so the destructive/batch cap at 3 does not apply; not 4 because checkpoints and feedback loops are present throughout, including the output format mandating validation commands and rollback per phase. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Textbook structure: a lean overview deferring detail to one clearly-signaled, one-level reference — "Read `references/cluster-upgrade.md` before responding. It holds the scan commands for each place removed APIs hide, the add-on checks, the drain-blocker query, node rotation per pool type, the EKS rollback rules...". But no `references/` directory exists in the bundle, so that load-bearing file is missing and its contents are unreachable as staged. Not 5 because navigation cannot be verified against the actual bundle; not 3 because the structure itself is far better organized than the anchor-3 example. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |