Content
81%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, highly actionable walkthrough with an exemplary testing/iteration loop and well-organized one-level-deep references. The main weakness is redundancy: the description-anatomy deep dive repeats Phase 3's formula, adding tokens without new guidance.
Suggestions
Fold "Deep dive: description anatomy" into Phase 3 or move it into references/description-cookbook.md — it restates the 4-part formula and per-sentence good/bad examples already given in Phase 3.
Move the worked example (post-mortem walkthrough) to a references/example-skill.md file and link it, keeping the body well under the 250-line limit the skill itself prescribes.
Trim the "The framework: how skills work" section to the three practical implications, cutting the general explanation of progressive disclosure that Phase 5 and the length-test guidance already imply.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient, but "Deep dive: description anatomy" (~30 lines) restates the 4-part description formula that Phase 3 already presents in full with good/bad examples, and the second deep dive re-walks the same six phases. This is more than minor trimmable over-explanation (score 4) but well short of heavily padded (score 2). | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully actionable for an instruction-only skill: a copy-paste SKILL.md structure template, concrete reference-naming patterns ("references/[noun]-template.md"), a testing checklist with explicit pass/fail criteria, a symptom-to-fix mapping, and a concrete deliverables list in the Output format section. No code is required, and the guidance is directly executable. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 1-6 are clearly sequenced, and Phase 6 provides explicit validation checkpoints (trigger, edge-case, false-positive, output, and length tests) plus a feedback loop mapping observed failure to a specific fix. No destructive or batch operations, so no workflow cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good structure: all three cited reference files exist, are one level deep, and are well-signaled both inline and in a dedicated Reference files section with one-line descriptions. It falls short of a 5 only because the deep-dive sections duplicate Phase 3 content inline that the skill's own rules suggest belongs in references/description-cookbook.md. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |