Content
65%Weight 40%Scale 1-3Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A concise, well-structured overview that trusts Claude's knowledge and points cleanly to real one-level-deep references. It is held back by abstract rather than concrete guidance and by two broken shared-theory reference links.
Suggestions
Add one or two concrete encoding recipes to the body (e.g., 'Use error bands / 95% intervals for estimation uncertainty; annotate sample size as n=; show missingness as a distinct visual state rather than encoding it as zero') so the SKILL.md is actionable without opening references.
Fix or remove the two broken shared-theory references (../../references/foundations/task-abstraction-and-chart-selection.md and perception-color-and-encoding.md) so every referenced path resolves in the bundle.
Add an explicit verification checkpoint to the Working Pattern, e.g., a final step that confirms the chosen encoding preserves the variation/uncertainty that matters to the decision before finalizing the view.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean (~45 lines) and assumes Claude's competence — it never explains what distributions, confidence intervals, or box plots are, and every section is directive rather than padded. Minor thematic repetition of "show variation honestly" is too slight to drop below the lean/efficient anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | Guidance is directive ("Choose encodings that show spread, uncertainty, missingness, or sample size honestly", "Avoid summarizing away the variation") but abstract; the body gives no concrete encoding recipes (e.g., use error bands for CIs, annotate n=), deferring specifics to references. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The Working Pattern is a clear, logical 4-step sequence and Output Expectations serve as a partial checklist, but there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops; checkpoints are implicit rather than stated, fitting the "sequence present but checkpoints missing" anchor. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a well-organized overview with one-level-deep, clearly grouped references (all four skill references verified to exist), but two of the six referenced paths ("../../references/foundations/task-abstraction-and-chart-selection.md" and "perception-color-and-encoding.md") do not resolve to any file, leaving dead links that impair navigation. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |