Conciseness

Every sentence carries a rule ('The fix is never deletion alone when a passage carries factual clauses — restate each so it stands at HEAD, then delete the transcript around it') with zero padding and no explanation of concepts Claude already knows. The 45-line body assumes competence and every token earns its place.

Actionability

Concrete quoted leak patterns with a specific fix per taxonomy class ('a fixed regression becomes a present-tense counterfactual ("without X, Y happens"), never repo history'), executable tooling (run the recall batteries 'with --hidden so .agents/ is searched'), named verification gates ('doc-sync for docs, verify-type-equiv, verify-translation-pairing'), and per-surface fix routing. Specific guidance covers the common cases for this instruction-only skill.

Workflow Clarity

A clear 5-step sequence (scope/exclusions → read-only audit → owner-first fix → pre-deletion proposition and trap check → verify) with explicit validation checkpoints and expected outcomes ('re-run the batteries expecting only sanctioned keeps, this skill's own directory, and the owning note's quoted evidence'), plus the overcorrection-traps checklist. The destructive-operation validation cap is fully satisfied.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is an overview only; few-shot calibration (references/examples.md, 253 lines) and the rg batteries (references/recall-batteries.md, 43 lines) are appropriately split into one-level-deep files, each linked with a stated purpose and a resolvable anchor (examples.md#overcorrection-traps exists at line 211). Both bundle files exist and contain exactly what the body claims.

Specificity

'Use when auditing or fixing prose that reads like a leaked reasoning transcript' names the domain and enumerates concrete patterns ('dead design-session citations such as (decision N), audit item codes, or §N of uncommitted drafts; change narration such as "used to", "no longer", "this cut"'), but the action verbs are limited to the audit/fix pair and the fixing method itself is not described. Anchor 4 (several specific items, minor gaps) fits better than 5, which expects multiple distinct actions.

Completeness

Opens with an explicit trigger clause ('Use when auditing or fixing prose that reads like a leaked reasoning transcript — …') and embeds the what (audit/fix such prose) with concrete trigger phrases, exactly matching the anchor-5 pattern of clearly answering both what and when.

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases a user would actually paste ('used to', 'no longer', 'this cut', 'a later PR in this stack', 'rejected in review') and surfaces ('comments, JSDoc, docs, or Agent Notes'), but misses common synonyms such as 'chain of thought', 'CoT', or 'leftover reasoning'. Good coverage with a few natural terms missing — anchor 4.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (trimming leaked reasoning-transcript prose) with highly distinctive triggers — '(decision N)', 'audit item codes', '§N of uncommitted drafts' — that no generic docs-cleanup or prose-style skill would claim. Minimal conflict risk.