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85%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.
A strong instruction-only skill: a tight 4-question framework feeding a validated 7-step workflow with checklists, decision tables, and a properly externalized fillable template. It loses points only for a few trimmable restatements of basics and the absence of worked examples that would make the guidance copy-paste concrete.
Suggestions
Trim lines that restate what Claude already knows (the definitional sentences for RPO/RTO and the 'lost encryption key' remark) — keep only the non-obvious mappings like the RTO-to-architecture table.
Add one worked example — e.g., a filled-in inventory table row or a completed runbook excerpt — so the output format and template are concrete rather than abstract.
Tighten the rhetorical one-liners in 'Failure patterns' (e.g., 'It happens. Plan as if it will.') to preserve the failure mode without the motivational padding.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly lean, directive prose with tables and checklists, but a few lines restate what Claude already knows ('RPO is the maximum age of data that's acceptable to lose, measured in time', 'If your backup is encrypted with a key you've lost, the backup is useless') and some rhetorical padding ('It happens. Plan as if it will'). Fits anchor 4 ('minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed') rather than anchor 5's 'every token earns its place'. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable-by-an-agent guidance throughout: tier definitions with examples, an RTO-to-architecture mapping table, architecture requirements (30+ day retention, 3-2-1 rule, object lock), drill types with a specific cadence ('quarterly tabletop, annual partial drill'), and a fillable runbook template. Not anchor 5 because there are no worked examples (e.g., a filled-in inventory row or sample runbook entry) and all guidance is platform-abstract — minor gaps rather than copy-paste-ready coverage of common cases. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step workflow (inventory → set targets → verify architecture → document runbook → run drill → document results → schedule next drill) is clearly sequenced with explicit validation: drills verify restores, and Step 6 is a feedback loop ('If the actual RTO was 6 hours when the target was 1 hour, the target is fiction. Either fix the gap or revise the target'). Matches anchor 5's 'explicit validation steps; feedback loops'; the destructive-operation cap does not apply since validation is built in. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The only bundle artifact users fill in (the restore runbook) is correctly offloaded to a real, well-signaled one-level-deep reference with a description of what it covers; the remaining body is the core planning framework that belongs inline. Matches anchor 5 ('well-signaled one-level-deep references; content appropriately split'), not anchor 4's 'minor organization gaps'. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |