Content
65%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.
Highly actionable with concrete, copy-paste-ready commands and a full worked example. Weaker on conciseness (repeated dependency-ordering content) and workflow clarity (no post-creation validation for this batch operation), and the monolithic single-file structure leaves progressive disclosure underdeveloped.
Suggestions
Add a post-creation verification step (e.g. cat .beads/beads.jsonl and confirm each child bead + bd dep add resolved) to satisfy the batch-operation validation requirement and lift workflow clarity above 3.
De-duplicate the schema→backend→UI ordering guidance, which appears in both 'Story Ordering' and 'Dependencies with bd dep add', to improve conciseness.
Move the large worked example and/or the 'Splitting Large PRDs' detail into a one-level-deep reference file (e.g. references/example.md) referenced from the body to improve progressive disclosure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence on generic concepts, but repeats the schema→backend→UI dependency ordering across 'Story Ordering' and 'Dependencies with bd dep add', and the worked example is lengthy; these could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable guidance: copy-paste-ready `bd create` commands with single-quoted HEREDOC syntax, `bd dep add` calls with stated semantics, priority values, and a complete end-to-end worked example covering the common case. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear numbered job sequence and a pre-creation checklist exist, but creating many beads is a batch operation with no post-creation verification (e.g. confirm .beads/beads.jsonl, validate dependencies resolved), which caps workflow clarity at 3 per the batch-operation rule. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-sectioned with clear headers, but the skill is a single ~230-line monolith with no bundle/reference files; the large worked example and detailed rules are inlined rather than split into one-level-deep references. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 14 / 20 Passed |