Content
61%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 a compact, well-sectioned procedure with a genuinely instructive example and honest limitations, and it avoids padding elsewhere. Its weaknesses are the misplaced boilerplate preamble with a hard-coded date, implicit rather than explicit validation checkpoints, and abstract steps that lack concrete commands.
Suggestions
Replace abstract steps with executable ones, e.g. 'Run git status and git stash list to inventory dirty work' and 'Confirm the ledger's recorded SHA with git rev-parse HEAD' in the Procedure and Inputs sections.
Make the verify-then-proceed loop explicit: add a step such as 'Re-run the checks covering Y before treating any work as complete; if they fail, fix and re-run' instead of the implicit caution 'A past test run does not validate new edits'.
Move or trim the 'Compatibility and maintenance' preamble — relocate it below the H1 (or into a maintenance note) and drop the hard-coded 'Modified in AAS on 2026-09-05' date, which is time-sensitive detail that does not help execution.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and directive with no re-teaching of known concepts, but the 'Compatibility and maintenance' preamble is boilerplate and includes the time-sensitive date 'Modified in AAS on 2026-09-05' outside any deprecated/old-patterns section, which the guidelines penalize. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is high-level ('Locate the latest task ledger', 'Read only the referenced files relevant to the pending action') with no concrete commands or search strategies; only the Example section approaches usable specificity ('Check X against the recorded result, inspect Y separately'). | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear six-step procedure exists, but validation checkpoints are implicit rather than explicit — 'A past test run does not validate new edits' is a caution, not a checkpoint, and no verify-then-proceed or fix-and-retry loop is spelled out. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is under 50 lines with no bundle files needed, and sections (When to Use, Inputs, Procedure, Example, Limitations) are well organized, but the compatibility preamble sits before the H1 title — a minor organization gap that keeps it from a clean top score. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |