Content
50%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-structured, concise overview that delegates appropriately, but the body is an empty shell: the instructions are abstract one-liners, the workflow lacks any checkpoints, and the single referenced file is missing from the bundle entirely. The skill as shipped provides almost no substantive guidance beyond what its description already says.
Suggestions
Make the Instructions section actionable: for each step, name concrete techniques or criteria (e.g., which bounded-context heuristics to apply, which communication patterns to choose between and when), rather than abstract directives like 'Plan resilience, observability, and deployment strategy'.
Add validation checkpoints to the workflow — e.g., verify each proposed service owns its data with no shared tables, check that every cross-service interaction has a failure-mode plan — so the sequence has explicit quality gates instead of ending at 'Provide migration steps'.
Fix the dangling reference: either include resources/implementation-playbook.md in the bundle with the detailed patterns, or remove the pointer and inline the essential guidance, since the referenced file currently does not exist.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows, but the intro sentence and the 'Use this skill when' list restate the frontmatter description almost verbatim, which could be trimmed. Better than anchor 3 (unnecessary explanation), short of anchor 5's every-token-earns-its-place. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | The four instructions are high-level hints — 'Identify domain boundaries and ownership for each service', 'Plan resilience, observability, and deployment strategy' — with no concrete methods, criteria, or examples; the only detailed material is delegated to a resource file. This matches the minimal-concrete-guidance anchor rather than anchor 3, because nothing here is specific enough to execute. | 2 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A coherent 4-step sequence is present (boundaries → contracts/data → resilience/deployment → migration/ops), but each step is a single abstract line with no validation checkpoints or decision guidance. Not a destructive/batch skill so no hard cap applies; it sits between anchor 2's many-gaps and anchor 4's most-checkpoints cases. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Sections are well organized and the reference is clearly signaled ('resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed patterns and examples'), but that file does not exist in the bundle — no resources/, references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories are present — so the skill's promised deeper content is unreachable. Better than anchor 2's minimal structure, but the dangling reference keeps it below anchor 4. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 12 / 20 Passed |