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.
Extremely actionable and specific — exact commands, paths, and checklists make it a strong operating procedure — but it is a ~48KB monolith with substantial duplication between the standards sections and the review steps, and no progressive disclosure into reference files. Tightening the duplication and splitting the domain rulebooks into references would substantially improve token efficiency.
Suggestions
Split the long domain rulebooks (Bank/Tenant Isolation, HTTP Middleware, Outbound HTTP, Concurrency, Documentation examples) into one-level-deep reference files (e.g. references/bank-isolation.md, references/middleware.md) and keep SKILL.md to the review steps with pointers plus a one-line summary of each rule.
Remove the duplication where review steps 7b/7c/11c/11d/11e/11f/11g restate the full standards text — the steps should reference the rule section by name and keep only the diff-level check and severity verdict.
Fix the step ordering so 11d (concurrency primitives) precedes 11e/11f/11g, or renumber the insertions, so the workflow reads in a coherent sequence.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is ~550 lines of dense project-specific rules that mostly earn their tokens (bank-isolation invariants, middleware bans, pagination shapes), but it is noticeably duplicated — Bank/Tenant isolation, HTTP middleware, outbound HTTP, concurrency, and docs-example rules are each fully explained in "Code Standards" and then restated in the numbered review steps (7c, 11e, 11f, 11d, 11g). A few sections also over-explain what Claude already knows (the BAD/GOOD raw-dict Pydantic example, generic asyncio lock-binding mechanics), fitting the 3 anchor (mostly efficient, could be tightened) rather than the lean 4–5 anchors. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable throughout: exact git/grep commands ("git diff main...HEAD | grep -in advisory"), exact file paths and symbol names (BACKUP_TABLES in admin/cli.py, _SINGLE_BANK_TOOLS, LoopLocalSession), a runnable lint script, concrete pagination parameter shapes, and explicit severity labels (must fix / should fix / note). This matches the 5 anchor: copy-paste-ready commands covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear 13-step review sequence with a lint checkpoint (step 3), per-step checklists, and a final severity-tiered reporting step. It falls short of the 5 anchor because the step numbering is incoherent — 11d (concurrency) appears after 11e/11f/11g — and validation feedback loops are thin: lint failures are reported but the loop back to re-checking after fixes is only implied, and the review is read-only by design so the destructive-operation cap does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Section structure is well organized with clear headers, tables, and checklists, but the skill is a 550-line monolith with zero bundle files — no references/, scripts/, or assets/ exist — so large self-contained rule domains (Bank/Tenant Isolation, HTTP Middleware, Outbound HTTP, Concurrency, Documentation examples) that clearly belong in separate one-level-deep reference files are fully inlined. This matches the 3 anchor (good structure, but content that should be separate is inline); it sits above 2 because navigation within the file is easy, and below 4 because no content is split out at all. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |