Content
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.
The body is a well-structured, highly actionable orchestration playbook with explicit sequencing, validation checkpoints, and feedback loops, and it avoids teaching Claude things it already knows. Its main defects are broken bundle references — the `rules/orch-*.md` files cited as CRITICAL/HIGH standards are absent, leaving the spawn hierarchy details and the entire report format undefined — and some recap duplication in the Workflow and Examples sections.
Suggestions
Add the missing `rules/orch-spawn.md`, `rules/orch-triage.md`, and `rules/orch-report.md` files to the bundle, or inline their essential content (especially the report format from orch-report.md, which Phase 6 depends on but never defines).
Trim the recap in the "Workflow" section and the "Examples" section, which restate the Mode Detection table and CI vs Interactive rules already covered above.
Make the CI-mode GitHub-override rule consistent: the Issue Tracker Detection table and the closing paragraph partially duplicate the Phase 5 non-interactive rules — consolidate into one place.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and efficient — tables, phase lists, exact prompts, and specific tool names with almost no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. However, the "Workflow" section (lines 240-245) and much of the "Examples" section recap rules already stated in "Mode Detection", "CI vs Interactive", and the phase descriptions, so it could be tightened; this fits "efficient; minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed" rather than the 3 anchor's "some unnecessary explanation". | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable for an instruction-only skill: exact file paths (`.qa/config.yml`, `.qa/reports/YYYY-MM-DD-HHmmss-qa-report.md`), exact MCP tool names (`mcp__github__get_pull_request`, `mcp__linear__get_issue`), copy-ready prompt templates for every user interaction, concrete agent-selection conditions, and a prioritized spawn strategy. This matches the 5 anchor's "copy-paste ready... specific examples cover the common cases"; the 4 anchor would imply missing key details. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Mode A's six phases are explicitly sequenced ("Follow these phases IN SEQUENCE") with validation checkpoints and feedback loops: stop if the test plan is empty, warn on missing env vars, detect STOPPED_EARLY blockers, and after bug fixes "re-run ONLY failing scenarios to verify" with an explicit "If still broken: ask user for another iteration" recovery path. This matches the 5 anchor's "explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery"; the 4 anchor would require missing checkpoints. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Structure is good — the body stays an overview, templates are clearly signaled one level deep in `references/` (config.md, test-plan.md, env-qa.md all exist) — but three files referenced as load-bearing (`rules/orch-spawn.md` marked CRITICAL, `rules/orch-triage.md`, `rules/orch-report.md` which defines the report format used in Phase 6) do not exist anywhere in the bundle, so the report format is never actually defined. This falls between the 3 anchor (structure present but organization issues) and the 4 anchor ("minor organization gaps") — missing referenced files are more than a minor gap, so 3. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |