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 delivers a clear, well-sequenced TDD process with strong checklists and an excellent anti-horizontal-slicing section, but it is padded with standard testing exposition and all five of its cross-references point to files missing from the bundle. Fixing the dangling references would raise both navigation and actionability.
Suggestions
Add the referenced bundle files (tests.md, mocking.md, deep-modules.md, interface-design.md, refactoring.md) or remove the links, since none of them exist in the bundle and every detailed-guidance pointer currently dead-ends.
Trim the Philosophy section (behavior-vs-implementation testing, good/bad test definitions) to the project-specific diagnostics and move extended examples into tests.md to reduce repetition of concepts Claude already knows.
Consolidate the three separate RED/GREEN loop diagrams (sections 2, 3, and the anti-pattern ASCII) into one, keeping the horizontal-vs-vertical contrast only.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient, but the Philosophy section re-explains behavior-vs-implementation testing that a competent model already knows, and the RED/GREEN loop is diagrammed three times (sections 2, 3, and the anti-pattern ASCII), so it could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, directive process guidance is present ("Write ONE test that confirms ONE thing", per-cycle checklists, exact questions to ask the user, "Never refactor while RED"), but there is no example test in the body — examples are deferred to tests.md, which is not in the bundle. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The workflow is clearly sequenced (Planning → Tracer Bullet → Incremental Loop → Refactor) with the RED/GREEN cycle as an explicit validation feedback loop, a per-cycle checklist, and guardrails like "Run tests after each refactor step" and "Never refactor while RED. Get to GREEN first." | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Sections are well-organized and the five links (tests.md, mocking.md, deep-modules.md, interface-design.md, refactoring.md) are clearly signaled at relevant points, but none of these files exist in the bundle (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories), so every deep-dive pointer dead-ends. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |