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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 delivers an excellent, well-gated workflow — clear phase sequencing, explicit validation, and strong feedback loops — with largely concrete, actionable guidance. Its weaknesses are redundancy (the same stop-and-reinvestigate message repeated across four sections plus a summary table) and progressive disclosure: it points to three supporting technique files that do not exist in the bundle.
Suggestions
Create the referenced bundle files (root-cause-tracing.md, defense-in-depth.md, condition-based-waiting.md) or remove the references — currently the "Supporting Techniques" section and the Phase 1 pointer navigate to files that are not present.
Consolidate the "Red Flags", "Common Rationalizations", and "your human partner's Signals" sections into a single anti-pattern section (or move them to a reference file); they repeat the same "return to Phase 1" message three times.
Replace the pseudocode instrumentation block ("For EACH component boundary: Log what data enters...") with a concrete runnable command template, mirroring the style of the bash example that follows it.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body never explains concepts Claude already knows, but the same message ("STOP, return to Phase 1, don't guess") is repeated across four sections — "Don't skip when", "Red Flags", "your human partner's Signals", and the "Common Rationalizations" table — and the Quick Reference table restates the four phases. This is anchor 3 ('mostly efficient but could be tightened') rather than 4, given the deliberate multi-section redundancy. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and specific: an executable bash instrumentation example (env | grep IDENTITY, security find-identity -v, codesign --verbose=4), explicit git-diff checks, and precise heuristics ("if >= 3 fixes: question the architecture"). The one gap is that the component-boundary instrumentation block is pseudocode ("For EACH component boundary: Log what data enters..."), which fits anchor 4 ('mostly executable guidance, minor gaps') rather than 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The four phases are explicitly sequenced with a hard gate ("You MUST complete each phase before proceeding"), validation checkpoints ("Test passes now? No other tests broken?"), and explicit feedback loops (failed fix -> return to Phase 1; >= 3 failures -> architecture review with human-partner escalation). This matches anchor 5 exactly: clear sequence, explicit validation, feedback loops, and a summary checklist. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure is good and the supporting techniques are clearly signaled ("See root-cause-tracing.md in this directory"), but all three referenced files (root-cause-tracing.md, defense-in-depth.md, condition-based-waiting.md) are missing from the directory, leaving broken navigation. Combined with ~280 lines of inline red-flag/rationalization content that could live in a separate file, this fits anchor 3 ('some structure, references present but the organization could improve') rather than 4, whose structure must actually hold together. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |