Content
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.
Excellent tool-driving skill: fully executable commands with expected outputs, a validated multi-step workflow with explicit checkpoints and feedback loops, and clean progressive disclosure to real bundle files. The only notable weakness is redundancy across the Mindset, Principles, Procedure, and Anti-Patterns sections, which repeats several rules and could be consolidated.
Suggestions
Consolidate the duplicated rules: heading immutability, placeholder replacement, and Options Considered requirements each appear in both the Procedure/Principles and the Anti-Patterns sections — state each once and cross-reference.
The 'Mindset' section's prose (e.g., 'Write for a reader six months out') could be tightened to its actionable rules, since the surrounding sections already encode the same guidance as commands and constraints.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense with tool-specific facts Claude cannot know (score thresholds, rubric word counts, slug derivation, heading-cap rules) and avoids explaining general concepts. However, the Principles, Procedure, and Anti-Patterns sections repeat several rules — heading immutability, placeholder handling, and Options Considered each appear twice or more — so it is efficient with minor over-explanation that could be trimmed, matching anchor 4 rather than the lean anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Every step is a copy-paste-ready command with its expected output (e.g., 'pantheon-adr check adopt-opentelemetry' → 'Score: 100/100 [complete]'), plus exact thresholds (80, 95 with --strict), word counts, file paths, and exit codes. Nothing is pseudocode or hand-wavy. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 9-step procedure is clearly sequenced with explicit '**Verify:**' checkpoints after risky steps, a '**Stop if:**' guard when Options Considered cannot be filled, and a score-iterate feedback loop (run check, fix, re-run until at least 80). Anti-pattern entries spell out consequences for error recovery. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references that all exist in the bundle (references/adr-lifecycle.md, references/cli-usage.md, references/context-extraction.md, scripts/check-undocumented-decisions.sh). Bulk CLI detail is correctly split into references, and each link is annotated with what it contains. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |