Content
81%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-engineered lifecycle orchestrator: clearly sequenced phases with explicit gates, validation feedback loops, and genuinely functional progressive disclosure to a real, one-level-deep reference. The main improvement levers are eliminating body/reference duplication and clarifying a few kit-internal phrases that are meaningless without the reference loaded.
Suggestions
De-duplicate the frontmatter template, body-shape requirements, and dora loop between SKILL.md and references/skill-craft-methodology.md — keep one authoritative copy (the reference) and summarize the rest inline.
Clarify 'Organize work in sibling workspace directories. Capture timing from notifications.' with the concrete directory layout (e.g., `<skill-name>-workspace/iteration-N/eval-M/{with_skill,without_skill}/`) that already exists in the reference.
Merge 'When to Switch Skills' and 'Relation to the Upstream Skill-Creator', since both sections route the same /skill-creator cases.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and imperative ('State the phase or paste the request. The skill will route and keep you on the rails.') and assumes Claude's competence, never explaining general concepts. It falls short of a 5 because of real redundancy: the frontmatter template, body requirements, and dora loop appear in both SKILL.md and references/skill-craft-methodology.md, and 'When to Switch Skills' overlaps 'Relation to the Upstream Skill-Creator' — all trimmable. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Mostly executable guidance: an exact copy-paste frontmatter template, exact commands with exit-code semantics (`dora review <skill-dir> --format json`, `dora fix <skill-dir> --yes`, `npx @hackmith/doraval` fallback), exact paths (`in-progress/<name>/`, `plugins/<plugin>/skills/<name>/`), and concrete numbers ('Generate 15-20 realistic eval queries'). Not a 5 because the Test & Iterate section has cryptic, under-specified steps ('Organize work in sibling workspace directories. Capture timing from notifications.') that only resolve after loading the reference or /skill-creator. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 5-phase table, explicit 'Phase Gates' with entry/exit criteria between every transition, a 12-item Quality Checklist, and a literal validate → fix → re-validate feedback loop ('Do not report done while the exit code is 1 or 2... Re-run until exit 0') are exactly the anchor's 'clear sequence with explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery; checklists for complex processes.' The 'Done when' convention per step reinforces sequencing. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Verified against the actual bundle: references/skill-craft-methodology.md exists, is one level deep, and genuinely contains the claimed material (capture checklist, drafting anatomy, optimization mechanics, packaging commands), signaled four times with the consistent '> For expanded X, load references/...' blockquote pattern. Not a 5 because the split is imperfect — the frontmatter template, body-shape rules, and much of the dora loop are duplicated nearly verbatim between body and reference, and the inline dora command sequence and long checklist could largely live in the reference. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |