Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a strong, well-structured skill that provides highly actionable guidance with concrete templates, output formats, and realistic examples. Its main weakness is verbosity in the Frameworks & Best Practices section, which includes general research methodology knowledge that Claude likely already possesses. The workflow is clear and well-sequenced, and the examples effectively demonstrate expected outputs.
Suggestions
Trim the Frameworks & Best Practices section by removing general research knowledge Claude already knows (e.g., what JTBD means conceptually, what triangulation is) and keep only the operational directives specific to this workflow.
Consider extracting the detailed Frameworks & Best Practices into a separate RESEARCH-PRACTICES.md file and referencing it from the main skill, keeping only the 2-3 most critical practices inline.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is generally well-written but includes some unnecessary explanations that Claude already knows (e.g., explaining what JTBD is, explaining that 'customers hire products to make progress in their lives,' explaining what triangulation means). The Frameworks & Best Practices section contains several items that are general research knowledge rather than specific operational guidance. The content could be tightened by ~30% without losing actionable value. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides highly concrete guidance: specific output formats with table structures, exact sentence templates ('We learned that [finding] which means [implication] so we should [recommendation]'), JTBD framing templates, and two detailed examples showing expected input/output. The workflow steps are specific and instructive rather than vague. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 8-step workflow is clearly sequenced with logical ordering (read first, then metadata, then analysis, then synthesis). Step 1 explicitly addresses bias prevention by requiring complete reading before summarizing. Step 8 provides a confidence assessment checkpoint. The workflow handles both single-transcript and multi-transcript scenarios with distinct output formats for each. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill references related skills (prd-writing, competitive-analysis, feedback-synthesis) for chaining, which is good. However, the Frameworks & Best Practices section is quite long and could be split into a separate reference file. The content is well-structured with clear headers but is somewhat monolithic at ~120 lines of substantive content, with the best practices section inline rather than referenced. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |