Content
70%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 an unusually strong orchestration guide: fully sequenced workflow with real validation gates and feedback loops, concrete commands, status-handling taxonomy, and hard-won failure lessons rendered as specific rules. Its weaknesses are moderate redundancy (duplicated graph edges, an Advantages section that restates earlier material, a long example transcript) and a progressive-disclosure failure — the two dispatch prompt templates it repeatedly points to are absent from the bundle, so the process cannot be executed as written without them.
Suggestions
Ship the referenced bundle files implementer-prompt.md and task-reviewer-prompt.md (or inline their essential contracts), since the process graph, Prompt Templates section, and File Handoffs section all depend on them.
Cut redundancy: render each graphviz digraph once (edges only, drop the duplicated node/edge listing), trim the Advantages section to the few points not already covered by the core principle and Red Flags, and compress the Example Workflow to one task cycle plus the fix loop.
Make model selection actionable by naming concrete model tiers/ids for the implementer, reviewer, and final-review dispatches instead of relative labels like "a fast, cheap model".
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and operational — it teaches non-obvious process economics ("a real session's dispatch hit 42k chars", "Turn count beats token price") rather than concepts Claude already knows — but several sections are padded: the two graphviz digraphs list every node and then repeat every edge as text, the Advantages section restates the core principle and Red Flags in softer form, and the Example Workflow transcript runs ~60 lines to illustrate a loop the Process section already specifies. This is anchor 3 ('mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'), above anchor 2 because the fat is redundancy, not explanation of known concepts. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is largely executable: exact commands ("scripts/review-package BASE HEAD", "scripts/task-brief PLAN_FILE N", the ledger cat path), a literal ledger line format, a five-part dispatch composition recipe, a four-status handling taxonomy, and a three-element fix-report checklist — and the referenced scripts exist in the bundle with matching interfaces. It falls short of anchor 5 because the model-selection tiers name no concrete models ("a fast, cheap model" is not actionable without ids), and the two dispatch prompt templates the process depends on (implementer-prompt.md, task-reviewer-prompt.md) are referenced but absent from the bundle, so the core dispatch artifact cannot actually be used as written. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The multi-step process is fully sequenced (read plan → pre-flight conflict scan → per-task dispatch/question/review/fix loop → final whole-branch review) with explicit validation checkpoints at every stage: review gates with two required verdicts, re-review loops until approved, ⚠️-item resolution before task completion, BLOCKED escalation rules, and a fix contract requiring test evidence before re-review. This matches anchor 5 ('clear sequence with explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery; checklists') — the Red Flags list is a genuine checklist and the ledger is an explicit recovery mechanism after compaction. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure is good and the scripts are properly externalized (review-package, task-brief, sdd-workspace all exist and are invoked by name), but the two central references — "./implementer-prompt.md" and "./task-reviewer-prompt.md", linked from the Prompt Templates section and the process graph — are missing from the bundle, leaving dangling links to the skill's most important artifacts; the final-review reference (../requesting-code-review/code-reviewer.md) is likewise external and unverifiable. This is anchor 3 ('references present but not clearly signaled / problematic'): the split is conceptually right, but navigation to the key materials is broken, which blocks anchor 4's 'references mostly clear'. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |