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Update existing design documents (Design Doc / PRD / ADR) with review

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a strong orchestration recipe: fully executable prompt templates, unambiguous sequencing, and explicit validation/feedback loops at every gate. Its main weakness is redundancy — scope, approval, and resolution-gate statements are each repeated multiple times, which inflates token cost without adding information.

Suggestions

State the completion scope and the final-approval stop condition once (e.g., in the Execution Gate) and reference it from Step 6 and the Completion Criteria instead of repeating the full sentence three times.

Merge the two Review Resolution Gate declarations (Orchestrator Definition and Step 5) into a single definition with pointers from the usage sites.

Trim restatements like "**CRITICAL**: Execute document-reviewer" since the Execution Protocol and Step 5 already mandate it.

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Conciseness

The body assumes Claude's competence (no concept explanations) and is dense with tables and prompt templates, but the same content is repeated: "Complete when the user approves completing the update" appears three times (Execution Protocol, Responsibility Boundary, Completion Criteria), the Review Resolution Gate is restated twice, and the final-approval stop condition is declared in three places.

3 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable: exact subagent prompt blocks with field-by-field mechanical extraction instructions ("copy the named source values into the exact fields"), decision tables mapping path patterns to update agents, and per-document-type reviewer invocation shapes that cover the common Design Doc / PRD / ADR cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Steps 1-6 are strictly ordered with an explicit Execution Gate, and validation is thorough: code-verifier runs before document-reviewer for Design Docs, review results branch into a revise-and-re-review loop with prior_feedback, design-sync conflicts return corrections to Step 4 with convergence rules, failures retry once, and a completion checklist plus a final approval stop gate close the flow.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent) and the single-file body is well-sectioned (Orchestrator Definition, Scope Boundaries, Execution Flow, Error Handling, Completion Criteria); the one external reference (references/review-resolution.md in subagents-orchestration-guide) is clearly signaled and one level deep, but the per-type prompt templates and review shapes could arguably be split out.

4 / 5

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17

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20

Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description correctly names the domain and document types but is a bare minimum statement: no 'when to use' trigger clause, no synonyms or natural trigger phrases, and only a generic action verb pair. It reads as a terse label rather than an invocation guide.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with concrete trigger phrases, e.g., "Use when the user asks to update, revise, or amend an existing Design Doc, PRD, or ADR".

Include natural synonyms and variations such as "product requirements document", "architecture decision record", "spec", or "design spec" so users' phrasing matches the description.

Name 1-2 more concrete capabilities (e.g., "verifies updated content against the codebase and checks cross-document consistency") to raise specificity from a generic 'update with review'.

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Specificity

"Update existing design documents (Design Doc / PRD / ADR) with review" names the domain and two actions (update, review), but coverage is not comprehensive — no mention of section updates, change history, or consistency verification.

3 / 5

Completeness

The description has a clear 'what' (update existing design documents with review) but no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"Design Doc / PRD / ADR" are natural terms a user would say, but common variations and synonyms (e.g., "product requirements", "architecture decision record", "spec", "design spec") are missing.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Update existing" plus the three named document types gives some distinctiveness from creation skills, but the description could still overlap with closely related design/PRD skills (e.g., the technical-designer and prd-creator skills it delegates to).

3 / 5

Total

12

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 1 missing

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

shinpr/claude-code-workflows

Path

skills/recipe-update-doc/SKILL.md

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