Content
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.
A dense, well-structured multi-mode planning skill with concrete output formats, checklists, and validation gates, plus one properly signaled reference. It scores solidly across all dimensions but leaves room on conciseness and progressive disclosure by inlining mode-specific detail, and on actionability by omitting a full worked example.
Suggestions
Add one short worked example of a complete approved-plan output (Building/Not building/Approach/Key decisions/Unknowns) so the Output template is unambiguous.
Consider moving the Evaluation Mode and Triage Mode bodies into short per-mode reference files, keeping SKILL.md as an overview with activation triggers and a pointer — this would tighten conciseness and lift progressive disclosure.
Prune the Gotchas table to the highest-signal rows or collapse it into the relevant mode sections to reduce inline bulk.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and rule-based with little concept-explanation fluff (no "what a plan is" padding), assuming Claude's competence throughout. It is not a 5 because at ~175 lines some mode-specific blocks (e.g. the Gotchas table and attack-angle table) could be trimmed or factored without losing clarity. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Highly actionable for an instruction-only skill: explicit output formats ("Line 1: one of Kill/Keep/Pivot"), a classification table, concrete checklists ("More than 8 files or 1 new service?"), and exact trigger phrases. Not a 5 because there is no fully worked example of a complete approved-plan output to anchor the templates. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The full-planning flow is a clear sequenced path (Preflight → Before Reading Code → Official Solutions → Propose → Validate → Handoff → Output) with approval gates, a red-flag self-check, and feedback loops (premise collapse, attack angles, blocking ambiguities). Not a 5 because the multi-mode branching (Lightweight/Evaluation/Triage/full) means there is no single linear sequence a reader can follow top-to-bottom without mode selection. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Clean section structure with one well-signaled, one-level-deep reference ("See references/durable-context.md for...") that exists as a real file. Not a 5 because the body inlines substantial mode-specific material (Evaluation Mode output rules, Triage table) that could optionally live in per-mode references, leaving the overview slightly heavier than ideal. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |