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78%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.
A well-structured routing skill: the body stays lean, defers all language detail to verified one-level-deep references, and encodes genuine decision rules (the job-queue vs. Task Queue distinction is especially valuable). The main slack is mild architectural exposition Claude could have gotten from the references, and the absence of any inline runnable example or validation checkpoint.
Suggestions
Trim the 'Core Architecture' section to the Temporal-specific facts (three deployment options, the poll/complete loop) and move generic worker/definition explanations into references/core/determinism.md, which already covers them.
Add one short inline CLI example (e.g., `temporal server start-dev` followed by `temporal workflow start`) so the most common quick-start path is executable without opening a reference file.
Add a lightweight checkpoint after the getting-started step, such as 'confirm the worker connects and the first workflow completes before moving to advanced references', to give the onboarding sequence an explicit verification moment.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is a lean router with almost no padding — every reference line carries a one-line purpose ('Decision trees, recovery procedures', 'Common error types, workflow status reference'). It falls short of 5 because the 'Core Architecture' section spends tokens explaining generally known ideas ('Workers are long-running processes that you run and manage. They poll Task Queues for work and execute your code') that duplicate what is already in references/core/determinism.md and the language guides. Not 3 — the rest of the body is tight and there is only one such trimmable section. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable guidance dominates: 'started with `temporal server start-dev`', an explicit reading sequence ('First, read the getting started guide for the language you are working in: Python -> read [Python SDK guide]'), and hard decision rules ('build it with a Standalone Activity — not a Workflow wrapping a single Activity, and not a dispatcher Workflow that receives jobs by Signal'). Not 5 because the body itself contains no runnable code or full command examples — all executable material is delegated to the language references (acceptable for a routing skill, but a minor gap in inline coverage of the common cases). | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The multi-step onboarding is clearly sequenced: 'Ensure Temporal CLI is installed' (with a pointer to the install guide) → read the language getting-started guide → 'read appropriate `core` and language-specific references for the task at hand', and the Command/Event table makes replay behavior concrete. Not 5 because there are no validation checkpoints (e.g., 'verify your worker connects to the dev server before proceeding'), though this is a knowledge-routing skill rather than a destructive or batch operation, so no cap applies. Not 3 because the sequence present is explicit and ordered, not implicit. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is a clear overview that splits all detail into well-signaled, one-level-deep references, every one of which was verified to exist on disk (references/core/*.md, references/{lang}/{lang}.md, references/integrations.md). Each reference line states its purpose, language-specific variants are consistently indicated ('Language-specific info at `references/{your_language}/determinism.md`'), and the one conditional case is honestly flagged ('Currently Python only'). Navigating from any user request to the right file requires at most one hop. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |