Content
77%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 excels at actionability and provides an exemplary validate-fix-recalculate workflow with concrete code and error-recovery loops. Its weaknesses are redundancy (error codes and prevention rules repeated across three sections) and a monolithic structure that inlines financial-modeling standards and references a recalc.py script that is not actually present in the bundle.
Suggestions
Consolidate the thrice-repeated formula error codes and the duplicated error-prevention guidance ('Formula Error Prevention' vs 'Formula Verification Checklist' vs 'Common Pitfalls') into one section to cut token cost.
Move the financial-model standards (color coding, number formatting, source documentation) into a references/ file (e.g., financial-modeling.md) linked from SKILL.md, and ship recalc.py under scripts/ so the referenced path resolves.
Delete meta-filler lines like 'A user may ask you to create, edit, or analyze the contents of an .xlsx file' — the description and section headers already establish this.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly imperative and code-heavy, but contains notable duplication and padding: the four formula error codes (#REF!, #DIV/0!, #VALUE!, #NAME?) are listed three separate times ('Zero Formula Errors', 'Common Workflow' step 6, and 'Common Pitfalls'), error-prevention guidance appears in both 'Formula Error Prevention' and 'Formula Verification Checklist', and filler like 'A user may ask you to create, edit, or analyze the contents of an .xlsx file. You have different tools and workflows available' teaches nothing new. It fits the 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened' anchor. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable throughout: runnable openpyxl/pandas snippets, the exact command 'python recalc.py output.xlsx 30', the JSON output schema for interpreting results with example keys, exact RGB values for color coding, and concrete number-format strings like '$#,##0;($#,##0);-'. This matches the copy-paste-ready anchor with common cases covered. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 'Common Workflow' is a clear numbered sequence (choose tool → create/load → modify → save → recalculate → verify) with an explicit validation checkpoint ('MANDATORY IF USING FORMULAS') and a feedback loop: 'Fix the identified errors and recalculate again', plus error-type-to-fix mapping and a verification checklist. This matches the top anchor's validate-fix-retry structure. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body repeatedly references a provided 'recalc.py' script, but no scripts/ directory (or any bundle files) exist, so navigation to it is unresolved; and ~60 lines of financial-modeling standards (color coding, number formats, source documentation) are inlined monolithically in a single ~290-line file with no one-level-deep references. This fits 'some structure but could be better organized; references present but not clearly signaled; content that should be separate is inline' rather than the good-structure anchor at 4. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |