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70%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 skill body delivers a well-sequenced, highly actionable clarification workflow with genuine validation and feedback loops — its strongest feature. Its weaknesses are token efficiency (duplicated hook blocks and an inlined taxonomy inflate the file to ~240 lines) and the absence of progressive disclosure: everything lives in SKILL.md with no reference files to split operational detail from the core loop.
Suggestions
Extract the Pre-/Post-Execution hook procedures into a single shared reference (e.g., references/hooks.md) and reference it from both points, eliminating the ~30-line duplication.
Move the full ambiguity/coverage taxonomy to references/taxonomy.md and keep only the category names plus a pointer inline, shrinking the always-loaded SKILL.md.
Include a minimal example of the prerequisite script's JSON payload (FEATURE_DIR, FEATURE_SPEC) so the parsing step is unambiguous without re-running the script.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is operationally dense and mostly free of concept explanations Claude already knows, but the Pre-Execution and Post-Execution hook-check blocks are near-verbatim duplicates (~30 lines each) and the ~50-line taxonomy and repeated formatting instructions could be tightened, matching 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'. It is not a 2 because there is little educational padding or filler prose. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is largely executable: the exact prerequisite command with flags (`.specify/scripts/powershell/check-prerequisites.ps1 -Json -PathsOnly`), concrete output templates for optional/mandatory hooks, exact question/reply formats, and exact bullet syntax for clarifications. Minor gaps — no sample JSON payload for the prerequisite script and conditional directives like 'update the most appropriate section' leave small interpretation room — keep it at 'mostly executable' rather than anchor 5. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-8 are clearly sequenced with an explicit validation pass (step 6: checks after each write plus a final pass), explicit error-recovery feedback (JSON parse failure -> abort and instruct re-run of /speckit.specify; ambiguous answer -> disambiguate without counting as a new question), early-stop conditions, and behavior rules covering missing spec, quota overflow, and user termination. This matches 'clear sequence with explicit validation steps; feedback loops for error recovery; checklists for complex processes'. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body has clear section structure (## headings, numbered execution steps) but is a ~240-line monolith with no bundle files; the duplicated hook-check procedures and the ambiguity taxonomy are content that clearly belongs in a separate reference file (e.g., HOOKS.md, TAXONOMY.md), matching 'some structure but could be better organized... content that should be separate is inline'. It is above anchor 2 because structure is present and navigation within the file is easy. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |