Content
85%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 strong, well-architected body for a complex multi-version upgrade planner: clear sequenced workflow with explicit validation, excellent progressive disclosure, and concrete inline commands. Slightly verbose in places and delegates much executable detail to reference files, which caps conciseness and actionability at 4.
Suggestions
Tighten the elaborative prose in the scope and judgment-call sections (e.g. 'The reason is not that v2 is hard. It is that...') to trim tokens without losing the guidance.
Inline a short, representative copy-paste command sequence for the most common single-major case so the body is executable without first opening a reference file.
The 'Judgment calls worth making explicitly' section could be condensed into a tighter bulleted checklist to reduce skimming cost.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is information-dense craft guidance that avoids explaining basics Claude already knows, but several passages (e.g. 'The reason is not that v2 is hard. It is that...') elaborate beyond what is strictly needed and could be tightened. Not a 5 because not every token earns its place; not a 3 because there is no padding about general concepts. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete inline commands ('npm view', 'npm pack', 'pnpm install --lockfile-only', 'grep -r "data-slate"'), a 7-step procedure, and the R1–R7 verification table, but much of the executable detail is delegated to reference files rather than copy-paste ready in the body itself. Not a 3 because what is inline is specific and executable; not a 5 because the body alone is not fully copy-paste ready. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 7-step sequence (Steps 1–7 plus 6b) with explicit validation checkpoints and stop conditions (no Studio found → stop; resolved major below floor → stop), and the R1–R7 rules table functions as a verification checklist. The destructive/batch cap is inapplicable since the skill is explicitly read-only. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview that points to a well-signaled, one-level-deep reference layer, capped by a 'Reference files' table mapping each file to when it should be read; load-only-the-boundaries-you-cross keeps context lean, and all referenced files (detect, version-lookup, boundaries, boundary.v4/v5/v6, deprecations, package-coupling, plugins, report-template) are present in ./references/. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |