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85%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, highly actionable planning skill with a clear phased workflow and concrete output templates. The main weaknesses are minor redundancy between the Key Rules and the phase instructions, and output protocols that reference shared files which do not exist in the bundle.
Suggestions
Fix or inline the Output Protocols section: the three ../../shared-references/*.md links do not resolve within this skill's bundle — either ship the protocol content inside SKILL.md (the protocols are short enough) or include the shared-references files in the bundle.
Consolidate the 'must-run vs nice-to-have' and 'strong baselines over long lists' guidance: it appears in Phase 2, Phase 4, and Key Rules; stating it once (e.g., in Key Rules) would trim roughly 10-15 lines.
Consider moving the full EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md template into a references/ file (e.g. references/plan-template.md) and keeping only the claim map and block skeleton inline, which would reduce the always-loaded SKILL.md footprint while keeping the workflow actionable.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and assumes domain competence — no space is spent explaining concepts Claude already knows — but Key Rules and the must-run/nice-to-have guidance partially repeat what Phases 2–4 already specify, so a small amount could be trimmed. Not 5 because of that redundancy; not 3 because the padding is minor and the templates earn their tokens. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable: named input files to read, concrete constants (MAX_PRIMARY_CLAIMS, DEFAULT_SEEDS), copy-ready markdown templates for EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md and EXPERIMENT_TRACKER.md, and an exact summary message format to present to the user. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 0–5 are clearly sequenced with an explicit fallback ('If these files do not exist, derive the same information from the user's prompt'), stop/go decision gates per milestone, a sanity stage, a final checklist, and an error-recovery loop for Write-tool failures. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The single-file body is well organized into clear sections, but the only external references — ../../shared-references/output-versioning.md, output-manifest.md, and output-language.md — do not resolve anywhere in the bundle, and no references/, scripts/, or assets/ files exist, so the links are dangling and cannot be navigated. Not 4 because the referenced content is unverifiable; not 2 because the body structure itself is appropriately organized for a single-file skill. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |