Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured, actionable research skill with a clear phased workflow and verification checklist. Its main weakness is token efficiency and progressive disclosure — it is a long monolithic file whose report template and reference material could be offloaded to separate files.
Suggestions
Move the full Standard Report Format template and the Search Patterns listings into separate reference files (e.g. references/report-template.md, references/search-patterns.md) and link to them from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure and reduce inline bulk.
Tighten the body by trimming redundant sections (e.g. consolidate Research Tips and Search Patterns That Work, which overlap) to improve conciseness.
Consider enriching the description with a few more concrete capabilities (e.g. competitive comparison, tech-stack profiling) to lift specificity.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The ~316-line body is mostly structured guidance rather than concept padding, but it carries substantial bulk (a ~75-line report template, full search-pattern listings, do/don't lists) that could be tightened without losing clarity. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | It provides copy-paste-ready web search query strings, a complete structured report template, and concrete delegation instructions to named subagents (web-researcher, people-finder) — specific and actionable for a research skill. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Three timed phases are clearly sequenced (Discovery -> Detailed Research -> Synthesis) and an explicit pre-delivery "Quality Checklist" plus "Common Pitfalls" section serve as validation checkpoints for the process. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill is a single monolithic SKILL.md over 50 lines with no bundle files; the large report template and search-pattern reference are inline content that would benefit from being split into one-level-deep reference files. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |