Conciseness

The body is two lines — a provenance comment and "Load and follow the shared skill at `~/.agents/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md`." — with zero padding and nothing explained that Claude doesn't already know. This matches 'lean and efficient; every token earns its place'.

Actionability

The single instruction is concrete (a specific path to load and follow) but it provides no steps for the skill's actual purpose — how to dispatch parallel agents is entirely delegated outside the bundle. This matches 'minimal concrete guidance; high-level hints but missing the specific steps to execute' rather than 3, which would require at least partial in-place guidance.

Workflow Clarity

Dispatching parallel agents is inherently a multi-step process (partition tasks, spawn agents, collect/merge results), and the body contains no sequence for it — only a coherent redirect directive. This sits between 'steps missing' (1) and 'rough sequence present but many gaps' (2); the unambiguous single directive keeps it above 1, while the complete absence of the actual workflow's steps and checkpoints keeps it at 2.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a pure overview pointing one level deep to a single, clearly signaled reference, which matches 'good structure; references mostly clear'. It falls short of 5 because the referenced path is external to the skill bundle (`~/.agents/...`, not a bundled file, so it cannot be verified to resolve) and the comment references `scripts/agent-harnesses.py`, which does not exist in the bundle.

Specificity

The description names the domain ("2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies") but lists no capability actions at all — there is no verb describing what the skill does (e.g., dispatch, spawn, parallelize). It sits at the anchor 'names the domain but actions are minimal or generic' and falls short of 3 because no concrete action is named.

Completeness

Only the 'when' is present ("Use when facing 2+ independent tasks...") with no 'what' — the anchor 'only when is present without what' (example: "Use when working with documents") matches exactly. It is not a 3 because a 3 requires a clear 'what', which is entirely missing here.

Trigger Term Quality

"independent tasks", "shared state", and "sequential dependencies" are phrases users would plausibly say, but the most natural trigger terms for this domain — "parallel", "in parallel", "concurrent", "fan out" — are absent. This matches 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations or synonyms' rather than 4's 'good keyword coverage'.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The trigger condition ("2+ independent tasks... without shared state or sequential dependencies") carves out a mostly distinct niche unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching 'mostly distinct; minor overlap risk'. It is not 5 because the condition could still overlap with general orchestration or task-management skills, and the 5 anchor's example pairs distinct triggers with an explicit capability statement, which this lacks.