Content
68%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 generated redirect stub: maximally lean and unambiguous about what to do next, but it contains none of the skill's substance — no overview, no task guidance, no workflow — and depends entirely on an external file outside the bundle. It works only as a trigger surface paired with an environment where the canonical skill exists at that exact path.
Suggestions
Inline a minimal quick-start covering the bus's core operations (e.g., write an artifact, claim work from the queue, send a ping) so the skill remains actionable if the external path is unavailable.
Replace the absolute home-dir path (`~/.agents/skills/artifact-message-bus/SKILL.md`) with a bundle-relative reference (e.g., `references/CANONICAL.md`) and ship that file in the bundle so the skill is self-contained and portable.
Add a one-line overview of the bus workflow (write → commit → notify → claim → verify) with a validation step (e.g., how to confirm a message was received) so the sequence and checkpoints are visible without loading the external file.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is two lines with zero padding — a provenance comment and one directive — and explains nothing Claude already knows. Matches anchor 5 ("Lean and efficient; every token earns its place"). | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | The single directive is concrete and executable ("Load and follow the shared skill at `~/.agents/skills/artifact-message-bus/SKILL.md`" gives an exact path), but every key detail of the actual task — how to send, claim, or notify — is missing from this file and deferred to a non-bundled external file. Not 4 because the gap is total rather than minor; not 2 because the pointer is exact and unambiguous rather than a high-level hint. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The redirect step itself is unambiguous, but the multi-step coordination process the skill governs (write artifact, notify, claim work, verify) is entirely absent — no sequencing and no validation checkpoints are visible in the body. The simple-skill exception does not cleanly apply because the skill's stated purpose is multi-step, so this sits between "steps missing" and "single unambiguous action". | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | One clearly signaled, one-level-deep reference with nothing improperly inlined — better than anchor 3. Not 5: the body offers no overview content at all, the reference is an absolute home-directory path outside the skill bundle (unresolvable in this environment), and the comment cites `scripts/agent-harnesses.py`, which does not exist in the bundle. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |