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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.
A well-engineered orchestration skill: the phased workflow is unambiguous, validation and error-recovery feedback loops are explicit, and guidance is concrete down to file names and log schemas. The main issues are token bulk from the fully inlined report template and a broken, buried reference to ../shared-references/external-cadence.md.
Suggestions
Fix or remove the broken reference to ../shared-references/external-cadence.md — the file does not exist in the bundle, and the link is buried mid-paragraph in Key Rules where it reads as noise rather than navigation.
Move the ~44-line DSE_REPORT.md template (and optionally the Typical Use Cases table) into a references/ file (e.g. references/report-template.md) and link to it from Phase 4, cutting the body's token cost while keeping the report format reproducible.
Add a short worked example of parse_result.py (even 5-10 lines reading a metric from a log via regex) to close the actionability gap in Phase 0 step 5, since metric parsing is the one artifact the skill asks for but never shows.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient operational content (no explanation of concepts Claude already knows), but the ~44-line inline DSE_REPORT.md template with placeholder rows, the sample dse_log.csv rows, and the DSE_STATE.json example add bulk that could be tightened or moved to a reference. Fits 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' rather than the minor-trim anchor at 4. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete throughout: exact paths (dse_results/, dse_log.csv, DSE_STATE.json, configs/, outputs/), a CSV schema, a parameter-inference table with per-type strategies, explicit stopping conditions, and four full example invocations. Not 5 because key artifacts are templates rather than executable code — parse_result.py is described ('or similar') with no example implementation, and the report is placeholder markdown; the gap is minor since target programs vary. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 0–4 are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints: the parse script must be 'Test it on a baseline run first', constraints checked each iteration, and strong feedback loops for error recovery (log-and-skip on crash, discard-and-reimplement after 3 repeat crashes, re-validate metric comparability by re-parsing a completed iteration, stop and report if a clean reimplementation fails). Stopping conditions and state-recovery steps are enumerated. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The body has clear section headers, but no bundle files exist and everything lives inline in SKILL.md, including content that belongs in references (the 44-line report template, the use-case table, the full report markdown). The single outbound reference — '[external-cadence.md](../shared-references/external-cadence.md)' — points to a file that does not exist and is buried mid-paragraph in Key Rules, so references are present but neither clearly signaled nor valid. Fits 'some structure; references not clearly signaled; content that should be separate is inline' rather than anchor 4's well-placed split. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |