Content
52%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-structured, sequenced research workflow with clear degradation rules, but it is hampered by redundancy across sections and by an inverted progressive-disclosure structure: detailed venue/source material is inlined in SKILL.md while matching reference files sit unused. Adding concrete search/MCP call examples would improve actionability.
Suggestions
Link the existing references/ files (venue-tiering.md, source-policy.md, domain-taxonomy.md, output-template.md) from the relevant body sections and move the inlined venue-tier and source-policy lists out of SKILL.md to eliminate duplication and orphaned bundles.
Add one or two executable examples per retrieval step — e.g. a representative WebSearch query string and a sample Zotero/Obsidian MCP call — so the search actions are concrete rather than implied.
De-duplicate the database/venue ordering that currently recurs across Retrieval Order, External Search Policy, Venue Priority, and Step 1; state the canonical ordering once and reference it.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly instructional and avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the database/venue ordering is restated across Retrieval Order, External Search Policy, Venue Priority, and Step 1, creating noticeable redundancy that could be tightened. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is specific in places (named venues, the exact paper-level fields to capture, the output table columns), but the actual retrieval steps lack executable commands or examples (no WebSearch query templates, no Zotero/Obsidian MCP call examples), leaving the execution details implicit. | 3 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly sequenced multi-step workflow (Step 0a/0b/0c, Step 1, Step 2, Synthesis, Output) with explicit graceful-degradation checkpoints ("If an unrequested source is unavailable, do not fail"; stop-and-report when an explicitly requested source is missing); minor gaps only. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Bundle files exist in references/ (venue-tiering.md, source-policy.md, domain-taxonomy.md, output-template.md) but the body never references or links to them, and the venue-tier and source-policy material is instead inlined and duplicated in SKILL.md — the classic "content that belongs in separate files is inlined" pattern with orphaned references. | 2 / 5 |
Total | 12 / 20 Passed |