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93%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 lean, well-architected routing skill: a concrete context-detection step, a control-plane decision table, an explicit golden path with pre-flight validation and safety rules, and a clean one-level reference bundle that fully backs every link. The only notable gap is the absence of an explicit error-recovery feedback loop (what to do when verification fails) in the golden path, which keeps workflow clarity just short of the top anchor.
Suggestions
Add an explicit failure-recovery step to the golden path (e.g., 'If verification fails: check logs or exit status, fix, re-run, re-verify — and roll back to the pre-work checkpoint if state was mutated') to close the feedback-loop gap in workflow_clarity.
Replace the elided command fragments ('sprite api .../policy/network', 'sprite-env services create ...') with one complete example invocation each, or annotate them explicitly as syntax-delegated-to-reference so readers know they are intentional pointers rather than executable commands.
State where the pre-work checkpoint ID should be recorded during the golden path (e.g., 'save the checkpoint ID to reference it in rollback'), making the safety rule operationally traceable when a verify step fails.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean with essentially no padding: every section is operational — a one-line context-detection command (`test -S /.sprite/api.sock && echo inside || echo outside`), a control-plane distinction table, a goal-to-command routing table, a 7-step golden path, and four terse safety rules. The only definitional sentence ("A sprite is a persistent, hardware-isolated Linux environment") introduces a product-specific concept Claude does not already know, so it earns its tokens; this matches the 5 anchor ("every token earns its place") rather than the 4 anchor, which requires identifiable instances of over-explanation, and none are present. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | The common cases are given as complete, copy-paste-ready commands: the detection one-liner, `sprite list`, `sprite exec -s <name> -- <cmd>`, `sprite-env services create ...` via the correct control plane, `sprite checkpoint create -s <name>`, `sprite file push` / `sprite file pull`, and `sprite create` / `sprite destroy`. The two literal elisions ("sprite api .../policy/network", the gateway URL row) are routing pointers whose full syntax is explicitly delegated to per-task references, so the body still covers the common cases concretely — matching the 5 anchor rather than the 4 anchor ("concrete code or commands with minor gaps" in the common cases themselves). | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The golden path is a well-sequenced 7-step checklist with explicit validation checkpoints: "Inspect before you mutate", "Checkpoint valuable state before risky work", and "Verify with real output — exit status, service state, logs, an HTTP probe", plus confirmation rules for the destructive operations (restore, destroy). It sits between anchors: it has more checkpoints than the 4 anchor's "most checkpoints present", but it lacks the explicit error-recovery feedback loop ("If errors: fix and re-validate") that the 5 anchor requires — there is no stated action for what to do when verification fails, only pre-flight safeguards. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | This is a textbook overview-then-references structure: the body routes each goal to a named reference in the operation table, and all 10 linked files (environment-detection, remote, services, checkpoints, network-policy, api-gateway, cli, http-api, files, safety) exist in references/ and each carries a one-line description in the References section. The references are one level deep with only a handful of peer links between siblings (no nested chains), and the body states "Read the one that matches the task; each is self-contained" — matching the 5 anchor (clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references, easy navigation). | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |