Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes competence — no concept tutorials, no library explainers — but has minor trimmable padding: each anti-pattern's trailing "ALWAYS ..." sentence restates the section heading (e.g., "ALWAYS paste the focus text unedited" after "NEVER paraphrase the task description"), and the "Consequence:" paragraph in the last anti-pattern is motivational rather than instructional. Not 5 because of these redundant echoes; well above 3 since almost everything earns its place.

Actionability

Fully executable guidance: exact Agent call parameters ("subagent_type: general-purpose", "isolation: worktree", "description: Wave N: <branch>"), concrete tier resolution steps pointing at references/model-map.yaml, a verbatim report message for the merge gate, and runnable build-check commands ("make build && make test", "npm run build && npm test"). Copy-paste ready for the common cases; nothing is pseudocode.

Workflow Clarity

The 2a–2g loop is clearly sequenced with explicit checkpoints: gate check against ticked Verification items, a hard STOP merge gate with verbatim message, waiting for user confirmation, and post-merge build validation with error consequence spelled out. Blocked-phase handling and the 'skip DONE waves' rule close the remaining gaps; this is a batch operation and validation is present throughout.

Progressive Disclosure

Clear overview body with well-signaled, one-level-deep references: references/per-agent-template.md, references/model-tier-guide.md, and references/model-map.yaml all exist in the bundle, are cited at their point of use (steps 2b.5/2c) and again in a closing References section with per-file purpose notes. The only external pointers (wave-execution-planner's wave-format.md and status-tracking.md) are clearly attributed cross-skill references, not nested indirection.

Specificity

Quotes several concrete actions — "spawning parallel agents per wave", "enforcing merge gates", "building self-contained per-agent prompts from wave document rows", "Reads a wave document produced by wave-execution-planner" — with minor gaps (the per-wave verification loop and status updates are only implied by "enforcing merge gates"). Not 5 because coverage of the skill's full behavior (verification checklists, wave-status updates) is slightly incomplete; clearly above 3's '1-2 concrete actions'.

Completeness

Explicitly answers both: what ("Execute a wave-based plan by spawning parallel agents per wave, enforcing merge gates, and building self-contained per-agent prompts") and when ("Use when asked to: run the plan, execute the plan, ...") with concrete trigger phrases. Matches the score-5 anchor exactly; not 4 since the 'when' clause is fully explicit, not merely present.

Trigger Term Quality

Explicit natural trigger phrases: "run the plan", "execute the plan", "start the waves", "launch agents", "execute wave N", "run wave execution" — phrases a user would plausibly say. Not 5 because a few natural variations are missing (e.g., "run the waves", "start execution", "kick off the agents") and "run wave execution" is slightly stilted; well above 3's partial keyword coverage.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (wave documents, merge gates, wave-execution-planner output) with domain-specific triggers like "execute wave N". Not 5 because generic triggers such as "launch agents" and "run the plan" could overlap with other orchestration/agent-spawning skills, and it shares its namespace with the sibling wave-execution-planner skill; well above 3's 'could still overlap with similar skills'.