Content
72%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A thorough, highly actionable instruction skill with excellent progressive disclosure and concrete examples. Its main weaknesses are occasional conceptual padding and the absence of an explicit validation/verification checkpoint before the generated package is finalized.
Suggestions
Add a verification checkpoint in Step 7 (e.g. re-read the spec and confirm COMPANY.md/AGENTS.md fields, slugs, and reportsTo structure conform) before summarizing, since package generation is a batch operation.
Tighten the 'Workflow' and 'Writing workflow-aware agent instructions' sections by trimming the conceptual rationale ('A company is not just a list of agents...') to the actionable rules only.
Consider moving the detailed .paperclip.yaml adapter/env rules into a reference file to keep the main body leaner, since they are secondary to the core company-generation flow.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and skill-specific, but padded in places — e.g. 'A company is not just a list of agents with skills. It's an organization that takes ideas and turns them into work products' and the closing rationale in 'Writing workflow-aware agent instructions' explain concepts Claude can infer, so it could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully concrete, copy-paste-ready guidance: an exact directory tree, hard rules (URL-safe lowercase hyphenated slugs, reportsTo conventions), executable YAML examples for .paperclip.yaml and sources, and a specific command `git ls-remote https://github.com/owner/repo HEAD`. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-7 are clearly sequenced with an interview alignment gate, but generating an entire package is a batch operation with no explicit verification that the output conforms to the spec before summarizing, which caps workflow clarity at 2 per the batch-operation guideline. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references to from-repo-guide.md, companies-spec.md, and example-company.md, all of which exist in references/ — content is appropriately split and easy to navigate. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |