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73%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 excels at actionability and workflow clarity: fully executable commands, a numbered search-write-validate sequence, explicit retry semantics, and a hard validation gate before returning code. Its main weakness is redundancy — the mandatory search/validate instructions are stated twice in near-verbatim form and the generic best-practice bullet list pads the token budget. Progressive disclosure is well handled by delegating detail to the search script, with only a minor gap around the unexplained assets file.
Suggestions
Deduplicate: keep the numbered five-step sequence once and have the MANDATORY sections cover only error-recovery details, removing the repeated command invocations and placeholder-flag explanations (~30-40% token savings).
Trim the 'Think about all the steps' bullet list to the few Payments Apps API-specific behaviors Claude would not infer on its own; drop generic items like 'Understand PCI compliance requirements' and 'Implement proper error handling'.
Briefly state what the bundle contains (e.g. that assets/ holds the indexed Payments Apps API docs consumed by search_docs.mjs) so the file layout is self-explanatory.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Roughly 40% of the body is repetition: the 'Required Tool Calls' numbered list restates the same search_docs.mjs and validate.mjs commands (including placeholder-flag explanations) that the two MANDATORY sections then repeat nearly verbatim, and the 'Think about all the steps' bullet list (PCI compliance, 3D Secure, error handling) is generic guidance Claude already knows. This matches 'Noticeably verbose; several unnecessary explanations or padded sections'; it is not a 1 because no basic concepts are explained and the commands themselves are tight, and not a 3 because the duplication is substantial rather than a single trimmable passage. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | Commands are copy-paste ready with concrete placeholder semantics spelled out ('scripts/search_docs.mjs "<operation or component name>" --model YOUR_MODEL_NAME ...', 'generate a stable random ID per code block and reuse it across validation retries'), plus a worked example ("paymentSessionPending mutation") and explicit retry limits. This matches 'Fully executable; copy-paste ready code or commands; specific examples cover the common cases'; there is no missing execution detail that would drop it to 4. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The body gives a numbered five-step sequence (search -> write -> validate -> retry loop -> return only after passing) with an explicit validation checkpoint, a feedback loop for error recovery ('Read the error message carefully... search for the correct values... retry up to 3 times; after 3 failures, return the best attempt with an explanation'), and a hard gate ('Do not return code to the user without completing step 3'). This matches the top anchor 'Clear sequence with explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery; checklists for complex processes'. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The bundle structure is sound: SKILL.md stays a lean harness while bulk documentation detail is delegated to the on-demand search corpus (assets/payments-apps_2026-04.json.gz) via the bundled scripts/search_docs.mjs and scripts/validate.mjs, both of which exist and are referenced with clear section headers — no nested-reference chains. It is not a 5 because the assets corpus is never mentioned in the body (its role is implicit), and the duplication between the top checklist and the MANDATORY sections blurs what belongs where; not a 3 because no content that belongs in a separate file is inlined and navigation between the sections and scripts is clear. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |