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88%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 dense, highly actionable process skill: every phase carries concrete paths, commands, templates, and numeric caps, with explicit quality gates and an error-recovery loop for spec defects. The two weaknesses are minor — a redundant Keywords section that duplicates the frontmatter triggers, and inlined rule-sets that would suit a reference file in a longer skill.
Suggestions
Remove the '## Keywords' section at the end of the body — it duplicates the trigger terms already enumerated in the frontmatter description and adds no new information.
Move the detailed per-artifact rule-sets (ADR completeness, arc42 scope caps, plan-context contents) into a single reference file (e.g. references/artifact-specs.md), keeping SKILL.md as the workflow overview with one-level-deep pointers, in line with progressive disclosure best practice.
Tighten the Handoff Ritual's Part 1 artifact-report code block to a one-line format string instead of a five-line fixed template, since the surrounding prose already states where each artifact lives.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is telegraphic and assumes Claude's competence ('Backlog row before artifact body', 'ADR abstraction. Core sections … carry no code paths, file names, line numbers, or signatures'), with almost no over-explanation. The '## Keywords' section (lines 197–201) duplicates the frontmatter description's triggers, and a few handoff blocks could be tightened — minor trimmable redundancy placing this between anchors 4 and 5, closer to 4 than a clean 'every token earns its place'. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is copy-paste ready: exact CLI invocations ('python3 tools/github-integration/flow.py tag-phase --item <ID> --phase arch'), filename patterns ('ADR-{nn}-{slug}.md, 2-digit, kebab-case'), hard numeric caps (50-line ADR cap, 55-line plan-context cap), a canonical commit-message template, and a verbatim transition question. These cover the common cases, matching anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 1–4 are clearly sequenced with explicit checkpoints: a one-block confirmation of scope/ASR/NFR counts in Phase 1, a '## Quality gates' checklist, a mid-course feedback loop (stop the ADR, triage, write REQ-REVIEW, route the FEATURE back to RE), and edge-case handling ('Skip the commit silently if the working tree has no changes'). No destructive or batch operation applies that would cap the score. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ all absent), so scoring is against the body's own structure: clear section headers and one-level-deep pointers with full paths ('skills/project-conventions/references/team-workflow.md', 'templates/ADR-TEMPLATE.md'). However, at 185 lines it inlines several self-contained rule-sets (ADR completeness, arc42 scope, plan-context rules) that could be split into reference files, matching anchor 4's 'good structure; minor organization gaps' rather than anchor 5's ideal split. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |