Content
71%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.
A well-structured router skill: excellent progressive disclosure with all references real, one level deep, and clearly annotated, plus concrete language-first reading instructions. Its main cost is duplicated conceptual content — the determinism and architecture explanations restate material that already lives in the referenced files.
Suggestions
Collapse the 'History Replay: Why Determinism Matters' section to a two-line summary plus the pointer to `references/core/determinism.md`, moving the 4-step replay list and Command/Event table entirely into that reference.
Tighten 'Core Architecture' to the cluster-run-options and worker-type bullets, deferring poll/loop mechanics and subsystem descriptions to the language and core references.
Make step 2 of 'Read All Relevant References' more directive, e.g. map common tasks (debugging non-determinism, adding signals/updates, versioning a live workflow) to the specific core reference to read.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly a lean index, but the 'History Replay: Why Determinism Matters' section (4-step list, Command/Event table, bolded failure rule) restates conceptual material that the body itself defers to `references/core/determinism.md`, and the 'Core Architecture' section similarly explains material covered in the language references. Not the level-4 anchor because more than minor trimming is possible. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | As an instruction-only routing skill it gives concrete directives — ordered 'read `references/python/python.md`' steps, a concrete install-check pointer, the actual command `temporal server start-dev`, and a proactive instruction to recommend Task Queue Fairness for multi-tenant apps. Falls short of 5 only because the post-reading workflow (what to do once references are loaded) is left implicit. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Getting Started section gives a clear ordered sequence — check CLI installation (with pointer to `references/core/install_cli.md`), then read the language guide, then core/task-specific references. No validation checkpoints exist, but the skill routes reads rather than performing destructive or batch operations, so the cap does not apply; the only gap is that step 2's 'appropriate references' selection criterion is left to judgment. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a concise overview with one-level-deep, well-signaled references: every cited path (`references/core/determinism.md`, `references/core/install_cli.md`, `references/integrations.md`, each language's `<lang>.md`, and the `{your_language}` variants) was verified to exist on disk, and each reference is annotated with what it contains. Navigation by language and topic is effortless. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |