Content
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is a well-sequenced, actionable orchestration skill with strong validation checkpoints and feedback loops, but it is monolithic (no progressive disclosure into reference files) and carries duplicated guidance that could be tightened.
Suggestions
Deduplicate repeated rules — consolidate the 'autoresearch-review/*' branch prohibition and the READY-TO-COMMIT/confirmation rules into a single canonical statement to improve conciseness.
Extract the longer reference material (e.g., the Current Tree and Pre-Commit Review decision tables) into a reference file and link to it from a leaner SKILL.md overview to improve progressive disclosure.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Directives are mostly lean and assume Claude's competence, but there is clear duplication — 'Do not create autoresearch-review/* branches' appears in both the Contract and Review And Commit sections, and the READY-TO-COMMIT pause/confirmation rules are restated across sections — so it sits at 'could be tightened' rather than fully lean. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete named commands (slate-ar-finalize, finalize-current-tree --exclude-session-artifacts, slate-ar-gate, autoreview, git) and specific file patterns (autoresearch.*, autoresearch.research/**) with explicit conditional logic; per the instruction-only scoring note this is actionable without code. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Two clearly numbered sequences (8-step default path, 7-step pre-commit path) include explicit validation checkpoints and a feedback loop ('fix accepted P0/P1 findings ... then rerun the focused proof') plus a READY-TO-COMMIT gating pause, matching the clear-sequence-with-validation anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist and the ~118-line body is a single monolithic file with sections but no reference splitting, so it has structure but content that could be separated remains inline — the level-2 anchor rather than a well-signaled multi-file overview. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |