Conciseness

Mostly efficient with purposeful code blocks, but there is repeated padding: the AGENTS.md explainer appears twice nearly verbatim ("AGENTS.md is a third-party alternative that uses the exact same rules..." in the Overview and again as a Note in Discovery step 2), and the "Use this skill when asked to" bullet list duplicates the frontmatter description. Fits 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' better than 'minor instances' at 4, since two sections are pure repetition.

Actionability

Discovery, dead-glob detection, and reference verification give concrete executable bash commands, and freshness scoring uses concrete thresholds (60+ days, <50% convention adherence). Not 5 because Steps 3-5 (code pattern verification, convention drift, structural verification) are direction-level with no commands or extraction snippets, and the glob-test snippet uses an undefined $glob_pattern variable; not 3 because the core workflow steps are executable rather than pseudocode.

Workflow Clarity

A clear two-phase sequence (Discovery 1-4, Audit Steps 1-7) with an explicit freshness-scoring table acting as validation criteria and a defined report format with priority ranking. Not 5 because the audit steps lack feedback loops (e.g., what to re-check after a flagged rule is inspected, or how to resolve ambiguous drift findings); not 3 because checkpoints and evaluation criteria are explicit, not implicit.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a genuine overview: a Reference Navigation table maps four topics to the four real files in references/ (all verified to exist, each one level deep with its own table of contents), plus a CI section that signals the same guide. Matches the clear-overview, well-signaled, one-level-deep anchor; the only quibble is the /install-rules-audit command reference with no commands/ directory in the bundle, which is a bundle-completeness issue rather than a navigation one.

Specificity

"Audit Claude Code rules and CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md files for staleness, quality, and drift" names the domain and concrete audit dimensions, and the trigger clause adds operations like "find dead globs in rules" and "find contradictory rules", giving several specific actions with minor gaps. Not 5 because the core 'what' is a single audit verb with three qualities rather than a list of multiple distinct concrete operations; not 3 because coverage clearly exceeds 1-2 actions.

Completeness

Both questions are explicitly answered: what ("Audit ... for staleness, quality, and drift") and when ("Use when asked to audit rules, check stale CLAUDE.md, ...") with many concrete trigger phrases. Matches the anchor that clearly and explicitly answers both; the explicit 'Use when' clause rules out any cap.

Trigger Term Quality

The trigger clause covers a comprehensive set of natural user phrasings — "audit rules", "check stale CLAUDE.md", "improve my rules", "check if rules are up to date", "review progressive disclosure setup", "find contradictory rules" — including synonyms (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, memory files, rules). Matches the comprehensive-coverage-with-synonyms anchor; nothing natural appears missing for this domain.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It carves out a clear niche (Claude Code memory/rules files) with distinct triggers like "find dead globs in rules" and "review rules freshness" that no general-purpose skill would claim. Minimal conflict risk; matches the clear-niche anchor rather than the minor-overlap anchor at 4.