Content
75%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 strong, highly actionable pattern guide: it provides a concrete decision procedure, a complete example agent prompt, explicit constraints, and a verification section with checkpoints. Its main weaknesses are redundant repetition of the when/when-not criteria across three to four sections and the absence of an error-recovery path for failed integrations.
Suggestions
Consolidate the dot decision graph, the 'Use when / Don't use when' bullets, and the 'When NOT to Use' section into a single decision guide — the independence criteria are repeated nearly verbatim in four places.
Add a feedback loop to Verification: what to do when the full suite still fails after integration or when agents edited the same code (e.g. re-dispatch a single agent on the merged result or resolve conflicts manually before re-running).
Move the session-specific 'Real Example from Session' to a reference file (e.g. references/example-session.md) to keep SKILL.md a lean overview, and trim it accordingly.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body mostly assumes Claude's intelligence (it never explains what subagents or test files are) and its examples earn their tokens, but the when/when-not criteria are stated three to four times — the dot decision graph, the 'Use when / Don't use when' bullet lists, the 'When NOT to Use' section, and the Overview paragraph all repeat the same independence test. This fits 'Mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'; it is not a 4 because a full redundant section-level repetition is more than a minor trim, and not a 2 because nothing explains concepts Claude already knows and there is no padding. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully concrete and copy-paste adaptable: a complete example agent prompt with test names, error symptoms, step-by-step instructions, an explicit constraint ("Do NOT just increase timeouts - find the real issue"), and a defined return format; plus a concrete dispatch snippet ("Subagent (general-purpose): 'Fix agent-tool-abort.test.ts failures'") and ❌/✅ mistake pairs. This matches 'Fully executable; copy-paste ready...; specific examples cover the common cases'. It is not a 4 because there are no significant gaps — the examples cover the core dispatch, prompting, and integration cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Pattern lays out a clear four-step sequence (identify domains → create focused tasks → dispatch in parallel → review and integrate), and the Verification section supplies explicit checkpoints (review summaries, check for conflicts, run full suite, spot check for systematic errors). This fits 'Clear sequence with most checkpoints present; minor validation gaps'. It is not a 5 because there is no error-recovery feedback loop — nothing says what to do if the integration run fails or agents did edit the same code; it is not a 3 because validation steps are explicit, not merely implicit. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill has no bundle files (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ exist), and the single-file body is well organized with clear section headers (Overview, When to Use, The Pattern, Agent Prompt Structure, Common Mistakes, Verification) that make navigation easy. This fits 'Good structure; most content is appropriately placed; minor organization gaps'. It is not a 5 because at ~165 lines it exceeds the compact-skill case and the session-specific 'Real Example from Session' section is inline content that would sit more appropriately in a reference file; it is not a 3 because references are not buried and the structure is coherent throughout. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |