Content
31%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 persona-style document dominated by encyclopedic bullet lists of prompting techniques Claude already knows, padded with generic filler sections. Its genuine strengths — the output format template, the 'always show the full prompt' rule, and the completion checklist — are buried in verbosity, and nothing is split into reference files.
Suggestions
Cut the 'Capabilities' and 'Knowledge Base' taxonomy lists (which merely enumerate techniques Claude already knows) down to the handful of points that encode this skill's actual methodology, or move them to a reference file linked from SKILL.md.
Replace the placeholder code block in 'Required Output Format' with one complete, worked example prompt demonstrating the expected output structure end-to-end.
Delete the empty 'Use this skill when' / 'Do not use this skill when' / 'Instructions' boilerplate sections — their content is already covered by the frontmatter description and adds no guidance.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Roughly 200 lines enumerate techniques Claude already knows (e.g., 'Zero-shot chain-of-thought with "Let's think step by step"', 'Tree-of-thoughts for exploring multiple reasoning paths') with no added guidance, and the 'Use this skill when' / 'Instructions' sections are near-empty filler ('Working on prompt engineer tasks or workflows'). Heavily padded, though in list form rather than prose explanations, so anchor 2 fits better than 1. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | Almost entirely descriptive taxonomy; the only concrete elements are the 'Required Output Format' template and 'Response Approach' sequence, and the central code block is a placeholder ('[Display the complete prompt text here - this is the most important part]') with no worked example prompt anywhere. More than nothing, so above anchor 1, but it lacks the specific executable steps of anchor 3. | 2 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | 'Response Approach' provides a clear 8-step numbered sequence and 'Before Completing Any Task' adds a checklist, but every checkpoint is self-referential with no externally verifiable validation step. Fits anchor 3 (sequence present, checkpoints missing or implicit); the destructive/batch cap does not apply to this generation skill. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent) and ~200 lines of capability taxonomy — the natural content of separate reference files — are inlined monolithically in SKILL.md. Section headers provide some structure (above anchor 1), but anchor 2 ('content that clearly belongs in separate files is inlined') is the best fit. | 2 / 5 |
Total | 9 / 20 Passed |