Content
81%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 is a strong operational manual: nearly every section delivers UCP-specific knowledge Claude cannot infer, workflows carry explicit validation and error-recovery ordering, and commands are concrete. The main weaknesses are a handful of trimmable rhetorical asides, two missing concrete examples for common steps (checkout update payload, get_product), and detailed display contracts that could be offloaded to reference files to shrink the SKILL.md footprint.
Suggestions
Add a minimal executable `ucp checkout update --input` example (destination + selected_option_id) so the checkout loop's steps 2-3 have a concrete anchor alongside the existing introspection guidance.
Move the message display-contract table and totals printer contract into a single reference file (e.g. references/display-contracts.md) and keep a short MUST/SHOULD summary inline, reducing SKILL.md body size while preserving one-level-deep disclosure.
Trim rhetorical asides (e.g. "The buyer named that specific merchant for a reason.", "Treat escalation as a normal lifecycle step, not a CLI failure.") to their operative instructions to tighten conciseness without losing the rules.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense, novel protocol knowledge (minor currency units, `--business` scoping, printer contract, escalation ladder, message display obligations) with almost no teaching of concepts Claude already knows. A few rhetorical flourishes ("The buyer named that specific merchant for a reason.", "Treat escalation as a normal lifecycle step, not a CLI failure.") could be trimmed, which fits the efficient-with-minor-trims anchor rather than the lean score-5 anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Copy-paste-ready commands cover search (`ucp catalog search --input ... --view ...`), cart create, checkout create/complete, profile init, and doctor, and the printer-contract pseudocode is explicitly justified ("your actual rendering depends on your medium"). Minor gaps remain: no concrete `checkout update` payload example and no `get_product` invocation example, so it sits at mostly-executable rather than fully covering the common cases. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Multi-step flows are explicitly sequenced with validation checkpoints and feedback loops: the profile-init/doctor diagnostic sequence, the discover-then-transact decision table, the checkout loop (introspect schema → destination → selected_option_ids → complete), the error-processing order (unrecoverable → recoverable → buyer input → buyer review), and the totals-verification rule that blocks autonomous completion on mismatch. This matches the anchor requiring explicit validation, recovery loops, and ordered escalation. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, so everything is inline in a ~240-line body; sections are clearly signaled with headers, decision tables, and bolded contracts, making navigation easy, and most content is core operational guidance that belongs in SKILL.md. However, the detailed sub-contracts (message display table, totals rendering pseudocode, search field-group docs) are candidates for one-level-deep reference files, keeping it below the top anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |