Conciseness

The core phases are tight, but ~260 lines include padded interop prose ("Relationship with context-surfing", precedence/cadence rules), an explanation of how Entire transcripts consume the frames ("You do not need to do anything special for this"), and redundant guardrails ("Do not over-trigger on trivial tasks" vs "Do not interrupt on every small step"). Not a 4: several sections could be trimmed or dropped without losing actionable guidance; not a 2: most sections are dense rules and templates, not concept explanations Claude already knows.

Actionability

Copy-paste-ready markdown templates for Intent Frame, Intent Check, and Intent Resolution, a concrete detection command (`entire status 2>/dev/null`), enumerated drift examples, and numbered multi-intent rules make this mostly executable as an instruction-only skill. Not a 5: a few directives remain abstract ("when current action feels tangential", Phase 1a's "It owns the retrieval budget and relevance checks") with no operational definition.

Workflow Clarity

Three explicit phases (Capture → 1a Session Context → Monitor → Resolution) with concrete drift-check checkpoints ("before touching a new area/file", "before starting a new logical work unit"), a feedback loop (drift detected → ask pivot-or-creep → resume or return to scope), and a gating rule ("Do not proceed while a material decision remains unresolved"). Not a 4: validation checkpoints and error-recovery paths are explicit throughout, not implicit.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a single ~260-line file with no bundle files (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ exist) and well-organized section headers. Content that would arguably live in separate reference files (Entire CLI integration, interoperability with five sibling skills, the context-surfing relationship) is fully inlined. Not a 4: the peripheral integration material buries the core workflow rather than being split out; not a 2: section structure is clear and navigation within the file is easy.

Specificity

"Frames coding-agent work sessions with explicit intent capture and drift monitoring" lists several concrete actions (framing, intent capture, drift monitoring) in third-person voice. Not a 5: the coverage misses resolution records and multi-intent handling that the skill actually performs, so gaps are more than minor; not a 3: more than 1-2 generic actions are named.

Completeness

Explicitly answers both: what ("Frames coding-agent work sessions with explicit intent capture and drift monitoring") and when ("Use when a session transitions from planning/Q&A to implementation for coding tasks, refactors, feature builds, bug fixes...") with concrete trigger situations. Both halves are present, explicit, and concrete — matches the 5 anchor exactly.

Trigger Term Quality

"coding tasks, refactors, feature builds, bug fixes, or other multi-step execution where scope drift is a risk" provides natural phrases users would say at the planning-to-execution transition. Not a 5: common variations like "scope creep", "implementation phase", or session-cue phrases ("go ahead") are absent; not a 3: keyword coverage goes well beyond a single domain keyword.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The planning-to-execution transition plus "where scope drift is a risk" carves a mostly-distinct niche from generic coding or planning skills. Not a 5: the trigger surface ("coding tasks, refactors, feature builds, bug fixes") is broad and could overlap with sibling skills like plan-interview or session-context at the same transition moment; not a 3: the drift-monitoring framing is a clear differentiator.