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75%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 delivers highly actionable, domain-specific guidance — concrete search queries, a quantified impact-scoring framework with worked examples, and a complete report template — organized in a clear 6-step workflow with real, well-signaled one-level-deep references. Its main weakness is token efficiency: significant redundancy and a very long inline report template make it heavier than the task warrants.
Suggestions
Move the ~190-line report structure template (Step 6) into a references file (e.g., references/report_template.md) and keep only the section outline and file-naming convention in SKILL.md, cutting roughly a quarter of the body.
Delete the 'Important Notes' section and fold any non-duplicated points into 'Key Analysis Principles'; state the English-language requirement once instead of repeating it in the description, workflow, report standards, principles, and notes.
Trim the asset-by-asset impact threshold tables in Step 3 to representative examples (or delegate them to market_event_patterns.md) and add a brief error-recovery note for the workflow (e.g., what to do when searches yield no Tier 1 market-moving events in the 10-day window).
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient — the impact thresholds, scoring formula, and worked examples earn their tokens — but it is padded by a ~190-line inline report template, an 'Important Notes' section that repeats 'Key Analysis Principles' nearly verbatim, and the English-language mandate repeated about six times. This fits anchor 3 ('mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened') better than anchor 2, since the verbosity is redundancy and template bulk rather than explaining concepts Claude already knows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The guidance is fully executable for an instruction-only skill: copy-paste-ready search queries per category ('FOMC meeting past 10 days', 'CPI inflation report [current month]'), a prioritized source list, a numeric scoring formula with four worked examples ('(10 × 3) × 1.25 = 37.5'), and a complete report template with file-naming convention. This matches anchor 5's 'copy-paste ready... specific examples cover the common cases'. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The 6-step workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit objectives per step, a date-window check ('Collect publication dates to ensure news is within 10-day window'), and a gating rule ('For each significant news item (Impact Score >5)'). It falls short of anchor 5 because there is no error-recovery feedback loop — e.g., what to do when WebSearch returns nothing significant or market data cannot be verified — keeping it at anchor 4's 'most checkpoints present; minor validation gaps'. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | All four referenced files exist in references/ and are one level deep, with an explicit conditional loading scheme ('Always Load' market_event_patterns.md and trusted_news_sources.md; load geopolitical_commodity_correlations.md or corporate_news_impact.md based on news collected) plus a Resources section describing each file's contents. This is good structure, but SKILL.md itself is a 715-line document that inlines the full report template and impact-threshold tables rather than serving as a lean overview, which anchor 5's 'clear overview with well-signaled references; content appropriately split' would require. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |