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.
A well-sequenced, highly actionable planning skill with explicit decision gates, checklists, and copy-paste output templates, and no filler. The structural weakness is disclosure: it is a monolithic ~250-line body whose output templates are inlined, and its only external references point to shared files outside the bundle that don't resolve.
Suggestions
Move the EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md and EXPERIMENT_TRACKER.md output templates into a references/ file (e.g. references/plan-template.md) and keep a short summary inline, so SKILL.md stays a lean overview.
Resolve the ../shared-references/output-*.md links: either vendor the needed protocol content into the skill's own references/ directory or inline a one-line summary of each protocol, since the linked paths do not exist relative to this bundle.
For Phase 4's compute cost and turnaround estimates, give a concrete heuristic or unit convention (e.g. GPU-hours per run and a per-milestone budget table) so the estimates are reproducible rather than open-ended.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and prescriptive with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows, and constants (MAX_PRIMARY_CLAIMS, DEFAULT_SEEDS) economically bound the design. Minor trimming is possible: the per-block field list in Phase 3 repeats the template fields in Step 5.1, and the "Composing with Other Skills" section duplicates information already implied by the description. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Phases 0-5 give concrete, executable instructions, and both output files get full copy-paste-ready markdown templates (Claim Map table, Block fields, milestone table, tracker schema). Minor gaps remain: "estimate compute cost" and "expected turnaround time" are requested of the model without any concrete estimation method or units. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The sequence (Phase 0 load -> 1 freeze claims -> 2 storyline -> 3 specify blocks -> 4 run order -> 5 write outputs) is explicit, and validation is built in: the sanity milestone ("metric correctness, one quick overfit"), stop/go decision gates per milestone, per-block success criterion and failure interpretation, and a Final Checklist. The plan is paper-only (no destructive/batch operations), so no feedback-loop cap applies. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The SKILL.md is ~250 lines with the two large output templates inlined; no references/, scripts/, or assets/ bundle exists, so everything lives in the body. The Output Protocols section links to ../shared-references/output-versioning.md, output-manifest.md, and output-language.md — paths outside this skill's directory that do not resolve here, so navigation to those protocols cannot be verified and the templates that could sit in reference files are inline. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |