Content
40%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 functions acceptably as a thin routing layer over a well-organized external guide, but it contains no actionable content of its own — no quick-start snippet, command, or step sequence — and its When to Use list is padded with a repeated ten-fold boilerplate prefix. Adding a minimal quick-start pointer and compressing the trigger list would materially improve actionability and conciseness without changing the structure.
Suggestions
Add a minimal quick-start snippet or the guide's single most common code pattern (e.g. the searchClient setup) inline in SKILL.md so the skill is actionable without loading the 900-line guide.
Compress the When to Use list to one line: 'Use when the user mentions: adding search to, Algolia, InstantSearch, typeahead, autocomplete search, faceted search, search index, search as you type.'
State an ordered minimal workflow (verify pinned SDK and credentials → read relevant guide sections → make changes → validate) so sequencing is explicit in the root skill, particularly before remote index changes.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is short and mostly purposeful, but "User mentions or implies:" is repeated verbatim ten times in the When to Use list, and line 12 duplicates the frontmatter description verbatim. This matches anchor 3 (mostly efficient but could be tightened); it is not verbose enough in explanation-of-known-concepts to fall to anchor 2, though the boilerplate repetition is noticeable. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The body provides no code, commands, or executable steps; all procedure is deferred to the reference via "Read [the detailed guide](references/detailed-guide.md) before executing this skill." The only quasi-concrete directive is "Confirm the pinned SDK, least-privilege credentials, private-record policy and task completion behavior before any remote index change" — high-level hints without specific steps, matching anchor 2 rather than anchor 1 because it does name concrete artifacts (the guide path, the confirmation checklist items). | 2 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | No step sequence exists in the body itself; the only procedural instruction is to read the external guide first, and a single validation gate is named ("Confirm ... before any remote index change") with no ordered steps or error-recovery loop. This matches anchor 2 (rough direction present, steps poorly defined) better than anchor 1 because validation for the risky remote-index operation is at least mentioned; the destructive-operation cap of 3 is not binding since the score is already below it. | 2 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clean overview (When to Use, Limitations) pointing to a real, one-level-deep reference (references/detailed-guide.md, verified to exist, ~900 lines, no nested references), with explicit loading guidance ("For focused work, load the relevant sections; for end-to-end work, read the guide completely"). It falls just short of anchor 5 because all material lives in a single monolithic 898-line file with no per-topic split (e.g. separate indexing vs. InstantSearch references), matching anchor 4's 'minor organization gaps'. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 11 / 20 Passed |