Conciseness

Every line is operational: word budgets ('150 to 400 words of plain prose', 'at most 120 words'), seat lists, call counts ('up to 160 short agent calls'), and exact field semantics. No concept Claude already knows is explained, and nothing is padded, matching the lean anchor-5; anchor 4's 'minor instances of over-explanation' has no clear candidate in the text.

Actionability

Guidance is copy-paste ready: complete Workflow invocations with exact args ('Workflow({ name: "council:deliberation", args: { brief, seats, sittings: 1 } })' and the resume pattern with resumeFromRunId/expect), a concrete ballot schema ('ids A, B, ..., each with a title of at most six words and a summary of at most 50 words'), and exact error strings to match ('Error "resend them unchanged"'). This matches the fully-executable anchor-5.

Workflow Clarity

Six clearly numbered sections sequence the whole process with explicit checkpoints: confirm the matter before convening, 'Show the brief to the user, then proceed', relay each sitting, gate on 'status is ready_for_ballot' before step 5, and the expect-checkpoint mechanism that turns a changed brief into an error. A dedicated error-recovery section ('When something fails') with three specific failure modes and remedies completes the feedback loops, matching anchor-5.

Progressive Disclosure

The single SKILL.md is well organized into clearly headed sections that a clerk follows top to bottom, and it points to plugin resources (agents/ per seat, the council:deliberation workflow) rather than duplicating them — good structure, matching anchor 4. It is not anchor 5: the file runs ~155 lines with everything inline (ballot rules, report format, error handling could live in reference files), so the under-50-lines simple-skill exception does not apply, and there are no one-level-deep reference files to signal.

Specificity

Concrete actions are named comprehensively — 'Convene a council of sixteen personality-typed subagents that debate a question under coded rules of order and decide by consensus or vote' — covering convene, debate, and decide with the mechanism spelled out. It would match the comprehensive anchor (5), but the second-person phrasing 'On your own initiative consider it only for a perfect match' incurs the rubric's 1-point voice penalty, and the action list stops just short of the multi-action breadth of the anchor-5 example.

Completeness

Both what and when are explicit: what is 'convene... debate... decide by consensus or vote', and when is given with concrete trigger phrases ('a consequential decision or dilemma with real competing tradeoffs and no checkable right answer, where the user also asks for several perspectives') plus the invocation path 'Meant to be run by hand with /council:council'. This clearly matches the anchor-5 example's structure of what + explicit when-with-trigger-phrases; anchor 4's 'when could be more explicit' does not apply.

Trigger Term Quality

Natural user phrasings are quoted directly: "ask the council", "convene the council" or "let the council decide", alongside synonyms 'several perspectives', 'a debate or a consensus'. This matches the comprehensive anchor (5) — users would naturally say these exact strings — and exceeds anchor 4 because the variants and paraphrases leave no common phrasing missing.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (multi-perspective council debate) with distinct triggers, further protected by the explicit exclusion 'Do NOT use for factual questions, coding, debugging or review tasks, quick opinions, or anything one careful answer handles'. Conflict risk with other skills is minimal, matching the anchor-5 clear-niche example; anchor 4's 'minor overlap risk' is not present given the boundary list.