Content
90%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 well-built instructional skill body: lean, specific section checklists, a clear 7-step workflow, concrete failure patterns, and a real output structure with genuine one-level-deep references. The main improvements are making the review/stress-test steps explicit validation gates and de-duplicating the section checklists against the template reference.
Suggestions
Reframe workflow steps 4-5 as explicit validation gates, e.g. "For every rule, attach a real example; only proceed to review when each section passes" and "Incorporate reviewer feedback and re-check before publishing", to reach the explicit validate-fix-retry pattern.
Trim the inlined 8-section checklists to section names plus a one-line scope and move the per-item detail into references/style-guide-template.md, reducing duplication with the 407-line fillable template.
Consider a short "If validation fails" branch (e.g. what to do when inputs like voice documentation or application examples are missing at step 1) to give the workflow an error-recovery loop.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense, checklist-driven guidance with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows; lines like "Build it like a reference manual, not a presentation" and "Rules without examples get ignored" each carry actionable guidance, matching the 'lean and efficient; assumes Claude's competence; every token earns its place' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and executable throughout for an instruction-only skill: "Per color: hex, RGB, HSL, CMYK, Pantone (if print-relevant)", "Minimum sizes (smallest acceptable size for print and digital)", a 7-step workflow, a concrete output file tree, and a fillable template reference. Per the scoring notes, absence of code is not penalized when guidance is this specific. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step workflow ("Inventory the inputs" through "Publish in the format the team will actually open") is clearly sequenced, and steps 4-5 ("Stress-test with real examples", "Get review from the people who will use it") act as checkpoints. It falls short of the 5 anchor because they are not framed as explicit validation gates (no validate-fix-retry loop or 'only proceed when' condition); it is above 3 because checkpoints are present, just implicit. No destructive/batch cap applies. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Two real, one-level-deep references (style-guide-template.md, maintenance-playbook.md) are clearly signaled in both the workflow and a dedicated "Reference files" section. It falls short of the 5 anchor because the ~100-line inlined 8-section checklist substantially duplicates the fillable 407-line template reference, so content placement is not cleanly split. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |