Content
78%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.
A well-structured instruction-only skill with a coherent working process, concrete editorial rules, and exemplary progressive disclosure — every reference file is real, substantive, and signposted with read-conditions. The main improvement opportunities are trimming cross-section redundancy and adding one or two worked before/after examples to make the editorial rules immediately imitable.
Suggestions
Consolidate the verification-and-handoff guidance that recurs across "Ground the content", "Make procedures and examples usable", and "Prepare the handoff" into a single place, pointing to technical-verification.md for detail, to cut roughly 15-20% of body length.
Add one compact worked example in "Edit with a reason" — a short original passage, the identified problem, and the revised passage — so the five-step procedure is demonstrated rather than only described.
Include a small sample handoff note under "Prepare the handoff" (e.g., a filled-in list of checks performed and unresolved gaps) to make the reporting requirements copy-paste concrete.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is rule-dense with essentially no filler explaining concepts Claude already knows — nearly every sentence is a directive such as "Do not change code identifiers, quoted errors, UI labels, or official names to satisfy a prose rule" or "Match UI labels exactly and format them in bold." There is minor redundancy (verification and handoff guidance recurs across "Ground the content", "Make procedures and examples usable", and "Prepare the handoff") and the body could be tightened by roughly 20%, which fits the efficient-with-minor-trimmable-instances anchor rather than the mostly-efficient-but-noticeably-padded one. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete and executable throughout for an instruction-only skill: a numbered five-step editing procedure, specific formatting rules ("Use inline code for file paths, commands, identifiers, environment variables", "Label fenced code blocks with their language"), and operational specifics like "mktemp -d" and lint-tool usage. It stops short of the top anchor because the body contains no worked examples (e.g., a before/after revision or sample handoff), which would make the editorial rules directly copyable; there are no missing key details that would drop it to 3. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The workflow is clearly sequenced — establish the reader's task, working notes, delegation, site conventions, grounding, drafting, procedures, editing, whole-document review, handoff — with verification checkpoints ("Compare the revision directly with the original", the pre-handoff checklist "verify that the reader's task is answered, claims retain their scope...") and a feedback loop for regressions ("When feedback identifies a regression, reassess the passage's purpose..."). Minor gaps keep it below 5: validation steps are described prose-wise rather than as an explicit validate-fix-retry loop, and the overall sequence must be inferred from section order. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body is an overview of process guidance that delegates detail to three real, substantive, one-level-deep bundle files, each clearly signaled with when-to-read conditions: "Read [editorial standards](references/editorial-standards.md) for every writing or editing task. Read [technical verification](references/technical-verification.md) when the work contains product claims, procedures, configuration, or code. Read [content patterns](references/content-patterns.md) when planning or restructuring a documentation page." All referenced paths exist and none of the references nest further; the core-vs-detail split is appropriate and easy to navigate, matching the top anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |