Content
71%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 well-structured with strong progressive disclosure and an actionable Punctuation Gate workflow, but several principle sections and Gotchas are verbose relative to what Claude already knows and could be tightened without losing clarity.
Suggestions
Tighten the multi-sentence Hard Rules (e.g. 'Material gate before drafting long-form', 'No silent restructuring') into one-line rules with the rationale moved to a reference, to reduce tokens without losing the constraint.
Consolidate the Gotchas table: several rows restate Hard Rules already covered above (restructure, change-list, padding), so keep only the rows that add a new smell not already enforced.
Make the language-detection Pre-flight step into a short decision table or code block so the branch logic is scannable rather than buried in nested prose.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence, but several Hard Rules and Gotchas are long and restate overlapping principles (e.g., the 'Material gate' and 'Stop after output' rules run to multi-sentence paragraphs that could be tightened). | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides an executable Punctuation Gate bash snippet, a real script, and concrete mode workflows with specific steps; minor gaps remain where guidance is principle-level rather than a runnable command. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear Pre-flight sequence, Mode Picker table, and Hard Rules give an ordered process with a verification checkpoint (the Punctuation Gate must run before returning text); the long-form exception is the only place feedback loops are fully spelled out. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a clear overview that signals one-level-deep references via a Mode Picker table and inline links; all ten referenced files and the gate script exist, and the large pattern catalogs are correctly split into references/. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |