Content
77%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 highly actionable with concrete templates, a real examiner-review tool call, and a well-sequenced workflow including validation and a revision feedback loop. Its weaknesses are redundancy between the Key Rules section and the workflow, and four external references that are signaled but not actually bundled.
Suggestions
Remove or de-duplicate the "Key Rules" section, keeping only rules not already stated in the workflow steps, to tighten token efficiency.
Either bundle the four referenced shared-references files (patent-writing-principles.md and patent-format-cn/us/ep.md) or inline the essential format rules so the skill is self-contained.
If the shared-references live outside this skill bundle, note that explicitly and verify the relative paths resolve from the skill's install location.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly substantive and domain-specific, but the "Key Rules" section substantially duplicates guidance already given in the workflow (antecedent basis "a"/"the", open "comprising", no result-to-be-achieved language, draft independent claims first), and the constants block is verbose. Not a 4 because the redundancy is more than minor; not a 2 because most content earns its place and patent-specific terms are not general knowledge Claude is assumed to have. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides copy-paste-ready material: jurisdiction-specific claim-format templates (e.g. CN "一种[主题],其特征在于,包括:..."), dependent-claim formats, a complete mcp__codex__codex examiner call with model and reasoning config, quality-check checklists, and an output template with a summary table. Not below 5 because the common cases are concretely covered with executable templates. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Seven steps are clearly sequenced with an explicit validation checkpoint (cross-model examiner review in Step 5), a feedback loop (Step 6 revision loop with re-submission via threadId up to MAX_CLAIM_REVISION_ROUNDS), and checklists (per-claim quality checks, claim-to-specification mapping). Matches the anchor requiring explicit validation, feedback loops, and checklists. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The "Shared References" section signals one-level-deep references with per-file purposes, but all four referenced paths (../shared-references/patent-writing-principles.md, patent-format-cn/us/ep.md) do not exist — no shared-references directory or bundle files are present, so the detailed materials the overview points to are unavailable. Not a 4 because broken references break the navigation promise; not a 2 because the inline content is reasonably structured rather than a monolithic wall. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |