Content
85%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 highly actionable with a clear validated workflow and excellent progressive disclosure to real reference files. Its main weakness is conciseness — the init palette and styling guidance are restated, and there is mild motivational padding that does not add instruction.
Suggestions
De-duplicate the full %%{init} themeVariables block: show it once in Golden Rule 1 and have the flowchart example reference it or use a shortened snippet rather than repeating all ~16 color keys verbatim.
Trim motivational framing (e.g. "They are not optional — they define the difference between a mediocre diagram and a gold-standard one") and merge overlapping styling guidance between the Golden Rules and the dedicated C4 Styling section to reduce repetition.
Consider moving the full Available Themes list (all 15+5 theme names) into references/themes.md and keeping only a brief pointer plus the most-used defaults inline.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient but padded in places: the full init-directive color palette is repeated verbatim (Golden Rule 1 and the flowchart example), the "Golden Rules" section restates styling advice later reinforced by dedicated C4 and references sections, and minor cheerleading like "They are not optional — they define the difference between a mediocre diagram and a gold-standard one." could be trimmed. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable guidance throughout: copy-paste Mermaid examples for flowchart/C4/architecture, concrete render commands with flags (e.g. `node scripts/render.mjs -i diagram.mmd -o diagram.svg --icons logos`), batch invocation with `--workers 4`, and a troubleshooting table mapping symptoms to fixes. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear five-step sequence (Understand → Create → Validate → Render → Code-to-Diagram) with an explicit validation checkpoint and feedback loop: validate, read troubleshooting on failure, fix and re-validate, max 3 attempts before asking the user. The modes table also clarifies Create/Render/Full branching. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Overview body is well-organized into modes and steps, with one-level-deep references clearly signaled and load-conditionally: c4-architecture.md, aws-architecture.md, code-to-diagram.md, themes.md, troubleshooting.md, and diagram-types.md — all verified to exist in ./references/. Navigation is explicit via a "When to Load References" list and inline "read references/..." pointers. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |