Conciseness

The body is lean, assumes Claude's competence, and explains no general concepts, but there is minor duplication that could be trimmed: 'Store the user's words, not yours' restates the 'NEVER reformulate the user's description' anti-pattern, 'Choose an honest default over a confident guess' restates the 'NEVER guess a rare archetype' bullet, and the inline sequence-number bash duplicates the snippet in storage-and-schema.md. This is the efficient-with-minor-trimming tier, not the every-token-earns-its-place tier.

Actionability

Guidance is mostly executable: exact input grammar ('/bridge <src> → <tgt>: <desc>' with '[type]'), exact response template, ordered keyword lists for strength detection, and a bash snippet for the sequence number and parse check. Minor gaps keep it below fully copy-paste ready: the inline bash uses '$dir' and '$file' without defining them in the body, and it hardcodes './thinking/bridges/' while the storage reference uses '${PRAXIS_DIR}/thinking/bridges'.

Workflow Clarity

The 8-step procedure is clearly sequenced with most checkpoints present: stop-on-missing-config with an exact warning message, write-nothing-on-unresolved-alias, duplicate check before writing, collision-safe numbering (highest number plus one), and a post-write yq parse confirmation. It falls short of the top anchor because the parse check has no explicit recovery path (no 'if parse fails, fix and re-write' step), leaving a minor validation gap.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a genuine overview (principles, when/when not, procedure, anti-patterns) and the four detail files — archetype detection, storage/schema, list/map/stats, worked examples — all exist, are one level deep with no nested references, and are well signaled both in the References section with descriptions and inline at the point of use (steps 4, 7, and Commands). Content is appropriately split and easy to navigate.

Specificity

Multiple concrete actions are listed comprehensively: 'Capture a cross-project connection', 'Writes one YAML file per bridge to a bridges directory', plus 'list, map and stats subcommands', with four concrete instantiations (shared pattern, person carrying context, story lending credibility, feedback loop). This matches the anchor for multiple specific concrete actions with comprehensive coverage; it is above the 'minor gaps' level because the storage format, location, and read-back subcommands are all named.

Completeness

Both questions are explicitly answered: what ('Capture a cross-project connection... Writes one YAML file per bridge to a bridges directory, with list, map and stats subcommands') and when ('Use when one project feeds, reuses, reinforces another: "connects to", "feeds into", "same pattern as"') with concrete trigger phrases — the exact top-anchor pattern.

Trigger Term Quality

Natural trigger phrasings users would actually say are quoted verbatim ('connects to', 'feeds into', 'same pattern as') alongside synonyms ('feeds, reuses, reinforces') and domain signals ('shared pattern', 'carrying context', 'feedback loop'). Coverage is comprehensive for this domain; file extensions are not applicable, so nothing natural is missing.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It carves a clear niche (cross-project connection capture with its own vocabulary — bridges, archetypes, YAML capture files) and its triggers ('connects to' another project, 'same pattern as') would not fire for unrelated skills. Minimal conflict risk; clearly distinct from generic note-taking or documentation skills.