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60%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 is well-structured instruction-only guidance with concrete rewrite patterns and verification checklists, and no filler or beginner-concept padding. Its main weaknesses are convoluted policy prose that needs tightening and abstract Core Rules that lack worked before/after examples.
Suggestions
Tighten the most convoluted rules (e.g. Rule 7's diff-limit sentence and Rule 2's reversible-choices clause) into short imperative statements; several require multiple reads to parse.
Add 2-3 worked before/after examples for the Core Rules — one rewrite example per rule (like the existing API-behavior example) would make the abstract directives concrete.
Consider moving the Rewrite Patterns table or the Generated Artifact Checklist into a references/ file so SKILL.md stays a lean overview.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but several policy sentences are convoluted and could be tightened, e.g. "Interpret minimal as the least downstream complexity that fully solves the problem. An explicit user diff limit is a constraint; otherwise necessary corrections are not bounded by a line count." and "Supply purpose, evidence and selection criteria for reversible choices; reserve exact selections for actual consumer contracts and user-owned decisions." — fitting the 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' anchor rather than the efficient anchor at 4. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The Rewrite Patterns table (e.g. "optional used as an unresolved choice → Required, omitted, or required only under a named condition") and the two checklists are concrete, executable guidance, but most Core Rules are abstract directives with only one worked example ("Preserve existing public API behavior across the documented compatibility cases."), leaving key rules without before/after illustrations — matching the 'some concrete guidance but incomplete' anchor rather than the mostly-executable anchor at 4. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | There is no multi-step sequence, but the Handoff Checklist and Generated Artifact Checklist provide explicit verification checkpoints with observable criteria (e.g. "Success criteria are observable", "Verification steps say what to run or observe and what result proves success"), fitting the 'most checkpoints present' anchor; not 5 because no error-recovery or feedback loop is described for items that fail a checklist. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is a single well-organized file with clear sections (Core Rules, Rewrite Patterns, two checklists) and no buried or nested references, matching the 'good structure' anchor; not 5 because at ~85 lines of content, material like the Rewrite Patterns table or Generated Artifact Checklist could plausibly live in a referenced file. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |