Content
73%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 a well-sequenced procedural skill with strong validation checkpoints and feedback loops around its destructive operations, and it names concrete commands and flags throughout. Its main weakness is repetition of the same safety constraints across multiple sections, which adds tokens without adding clarity.
Suggestions
Consolidate the repeated no-mutation-without-explicit-approval and no-review-branch rules into a single authoritative section and reference it, reducing token cost.
Tighten abstract steps like "run the narrowest relevant slate-ar-gate proof" with a concrete example of which gate maps to which change type.
Consider splitting the long Review And Commit rules into a referenced file so SKILL.md reads as a leaner overview with one-level-deep detail.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient operational prose that assumes Claude knows git, but the no-mutation-without-approval and no-review-branch rules are repeated across Contract, Current Tree, Pre-Commit, and Review And Commit sections and could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Names concrete sub-commands and flags (slate-ar-finalize, finalize-current-tree --exclude-session-artifacts, slate-ar-gate, autoreview, finalize-autoresearch.mjs <plan>) with clear ordering, though some steps like "run the narrowest relevant gate" stay abstract, keeping it just below fully copy-paste ready. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Both the 8-step default flow and 7-step pre-commit path are explicitly sequenced with validation checkpoints (proof gates, autoreview, fix P0/P1 then rerun, READY TO COMMIT pause) and feedback loops for the destructive commit/push/PR operations. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-organized into clear sections (Contract, Current Tree, Pre-Commit Review, Review And Commit, Handoff) with no nested or buried references and no bundle files to split out, but it is a single inline monolith with no overview-pointing-to-details pattern to earn a 5. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |