Content
86%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, well-structured strategy skill: concrete domain guidance Claude cannot be assumed to know, a sequenced workflow with validation and data-gap rules, and clean progressive disclosure to two real reference files. The two minor gaps are a handful of trimmable general-knowledge sentences and the absence of an error-recovery feedback loop after label validation.
Suggestions
Trim the motivational opener ('A well-designed IA makes the rest of the project easier...') and the sentence explaining that URLs are user-facing and indexed by search engines — both restate general knowledge.
Add a feedback loop after the step-7 label validation: what to do when a tree test or closed card sort fails (e.g., revise the contested labels, re-sort, re-test) rather than only stating the gap.
Clarify in the 'When NOT to use' section that navigation-visual design (styling, layouts) belongs to design-standards, since 'navigation' alone as a trigger could pull visual-design requests into this skill.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and prescriptive with concrete numbers throughout ('5 to 7 items maximum', 'under 60 characters', 'typically 5 to 15'), but a few sentences are trimmable general knowledge — the motivational opener ('A well-designed IA makes the rest of the project easier...') and 'URLs are... user-facing, indexed by search engines'. Not 5: those minor instances mean not every token earns its place; not 3: there is no noticeable padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | As an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully actionable: a concrete URL pattern block, defined test methods (card sort, tree test, first-click), specific counts for navigation/categories/tags, named failure patterns with remedies, a 9-step workflow, and an 8-section output format. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 9-step workflow is clearly sequenced with conditional branching ('If audience is unclear, run brand-discovery first') and a validation step ('Validate labels. Tree test or closed card sort with target users, or state the gap per the data-availability rule'). Not 5: there is no feedback loop for what to do when validation fails or how to iterate; not capped at 3 because the skill involves no destructive or batch operations. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body serves as a clear overview with two verified, well-signaled one-level-deep references (ia-document-template.md and url-pattern-library.md), linked both inline in the workflow and in a dedicated 'Reference files' section; the fillable template and expanded URL library are appropriately split out of SKILL.md. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |