Content
88%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.
This is a strong instruction-only skill body: a clearly sequenced five-phase workflow with an explicit pre-handoff validation checklist, concrete evidence-gathering commands and file names, a fully worked example output, and well-organized single-file structure with clear external pointers. Its only weakness is mild redundancy across the How It Works, Best Practices, and Common Pitfalls sections, which slightly inflates length without adding new guidance.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and high-signal throughout: no padding explaining what AGENTS.md is, no generic engineering filler, and every section (scope rules, evidence map, validation checklist, safety notes) carries repository-specific guidance. There is mild redundancy — e.g. "Keep shared rules at the root" appears in step 3 and again in Common Pitfalls ("Duplicating nested files"), and Best Practices restates rules from How It Works — which keeps it at anchor 4 ("Efficient; minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed") rather than the every-token-earns-its-place anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully concrete and executable: exact discovery commands ("Prefer `rg --files` and `rg`"), exact files to inspect (README*, CONTRIBUTING*, manifests, lockfiles, CI workflows), a copy-paste-ready example AGENTS.md with real commands (`npm ci`, `npm run lint`, `npm run typecheck`, `npm test`), and a concrete good-vs-bad instruction pair (`npm test -- path/to/file.test.ts` vs "make sure tests pass"). Per the scoring note for instruction-only skills, absence of code is not penalized, and the specific examples cover the common cases — matching anchor 5. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The five-step How It Works sequence is clearly ordered, and step 5 ("Validate before handoff") is an explicit validation checklist: re-read changed files, remove contradictions, confirm every mentioned file exists, cross-check commands against manifests/CI, and review the diff as a maintainer — plus a feedback loop ("run safe, proportionate checks when useful") and honest-reporting requirements. This is a state-changing skill and validation is present and explicit, so the destructive-operation cap does not apply; the content matches anchor 5 (clear sequence, explicit validation steps, feedback loops, checklist). | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent) and all external pointers (the agents.md URL, @agents-generator, @folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md) are clearly signaled one level deep. The ~200-line body is well organized into scannable sections (Overview, When to Use, How It Works, Examples, Best Practices, Security, Pitfalls, Limitations), though some inline material (the two worked Examples) could arguably live in a separate file — minor organization gaps consistent with anchor 4 rather than the fully split structure of anchor 5 (which the under-50-lines exception does not reach, given the length). | 4 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |