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82%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.
This is a high-quality, dense rule-set skill: it gives concrete code, exact file paths, a real decision procedure, and hard-won failure-mode guidance, all of it project-specific knowledge Claude could not infer. The main improvements are trimming historical backstory in the hook-history and service-DI sections and possibly moving the ordering catalog and memento details into a reference file.
Suggestions
Tighten the historical justifications (hook reduction from six to four, host-bridge growth from seven to two, the async-gate experiment) to one line each — the rule and the fact it was learned the hard way can survive without the full narrative.
Consider moving the ordering catalog (the per-contribution order values) and the memento lifecycle details into a one-level-deep reference file, keeping SKILL.md to the rule, the decision test, and the hooks table.
Consolidate the implementation workflow (read files → decision test → anatomy checklist → registration → tests) into a single short end-to-end sequence so the checkpoints are visible in one pass.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Nearly every section delivers project-specific, non-inferable knowledge (hook semantics, ordering values, memento eviction rules, real failure modes like "d.dispose is not a function") with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. It is 4 rather than 5 because several historical narratives could be tightened — e.g., "The set was once reduced from six to four", "It grew to seven members before being cut back to two", and the async-gate backstory run long for the rule they justify. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | The content provides a complete, adapted real code example (the ArtifactToolsContribution class with decorator injection and a working hook implementation), a concrete three-question decision test, exact registration call (`contributions.registerContribution(ArtifactToolsContribution)`), a full hooks reference table with concrete example contributions, specific order values, and named test files. This fully matches the 'copy-paste ready code; specific examples cover the common cases' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The workflow is well sequenced — read the listed files first, apply the numbered decision test, follow the four-item anatomy checklist, register in the single built-in list, and add tests in the named file — with real validation checkpoints (built-in-sequence regression tests, leaving the old agentSideEffects suite unchanged as extraction proof). It falls short of 5 because the sequence is distributed across concern-based sections rather than one end-to-end walkthrough, and a couple of checkpoints are implicit (e.g., duplicate-id rejection is mentioned only in passing). | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The bundle contains no reference files, and the body is organized into clear, well-scoped sections with a navigable hooks table; its pointers are to real codebase files (src/vs/platform/agentHost/...), clearly signaled and each load-bearing for the workflow. It stays at 4 rather than 5 because at ~177 lines some catalog material (the ordering values list, memento lifecycle details) is inlined at a depth that could live in a one-level-deep reference file. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |