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92%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.
An exemplary instruction-only skill body: concise, well-sequenced with validation checkpoints and a failure-retry loop, and cleanly split into two well-signaled one-level-deep references that exist in the bundle. The only improvement space is that the body itself contains no executable commands, relying entirely on the reference files for concrete tooling.
Suggestions
Inline one concrete example of an authoritative registry lookup (e.g., a single `npm view <package> versions --json` or `go list -m -versions` line) in the shared instructions so the body's step 3 is executable without opening a reference.
Add a brief example of the validation-in-isolation step (e.g., the actual worktree or temp-copy command pattern) to make step 5 copy-paste ready.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Lean and directive throughout: a dispatch table, seven numbered instructions, and a report template, with zero explanation of concepts Claude already knows (no 'what is OpenTelemetry' padding). Dense clauses like "Treat release candidates, beta/alpha packages, nightly artifacts, and untagged source as prereleases unless that package line intentionally publishes with a prerelease identifier" carry non-obvious policy, not padding — every token earns its place, matching anchor 5 rather than anchor 4 (which requires trimmable over-explanation). | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and specific — "validating in a temporary copy, worktree, or equivalent isolated environment", "Record the lookup date", "Start with the latest stable candidate. If it fails, diagnose the cause and test selected lower versions" — and the report template is copy-paste ready. It sits just below anchor 5 because the executable specifics (registry commands like `go list -m -versions`, validation commands) are delegated to the referenced files rather than present in the body, a minor gap relative to 'specific examples cover the common cases'; it clearly exceeds anchor 3, which would require pseudocode or missing key details. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The seven shared instructions form a clear sequence (inspect evidence → establish versions → query registries → separate latest vs. validated → isolate and validate → map to usage → use specialized skills) with explicit checkpoints ("Do not call a candidate validated when the relevant checks could not run") and a feedback loop ("If it fails, diagnose the cause and test selected lower versions"). This matches anchor 5's explicit validation steps with error-recovery loops; anchor 4 would leave minor validation gaps. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Classic overview-plus-references structure: the dispatch table routes to exactly two one-level-deep references ([Dependency upgrade](references/dependency-upgrade.md) and [Collector upgrade](references/collector-upgrade.md)), both of which exist in the bundle, with explicit reading rules ("Read only the applicable reference. Read both when the upgrade crosses both surfaces"). Detailed workflows live in the references and the body stays a concise overview — anchor 5, with no monolithic inline content that anchor 2/3 would penalize. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |