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 thorough, highly actionable multi-phase workflow with strong validation checkpoints and feedback loops. Its main weaknesses are length/redundancy and a monolithic structure that inlines substantial agency-specific reference material instead of splitting it into bundled reference files.
Suggestions
De-duplicate the pipeline diagram (keep one of the two ASCII diagrams near the top) and remove the restated funding-track explanation in 'Composing with Other Skills' to tighten conciseness.
Move the eight Grant Type Specifications tables into a bundled reference file (e.g. references/agency-specs.md) and have SKILL.md summarize agency coverage with one-line links, improving progressive disclosure.
Trim conceptual framing a user/PI already knows (e.g. 'Grant proposals argue for future work', the paper-vs-grant contrast) to leaner statements that still preserve the actionable guidance.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient and much of the detail (agency templates, sub-types, review criteria) is genuinely skill-specific, but the pipeline diagram is duplicated (lines 16-19 and 25-29), the funding-track composition is restated, and some conceptual framing ("Grant proposals argue for future work") could be trimmed. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides an executable bash resolver block for style-ref, concrete sub-skill invocation strings with arguments, a precise GRANT_STATE.json schema, MCP call patterns, and concrete output file trees — copy-paste ready guidance covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 0-5 are clearly sequenced with explicit STOP checkpoints (🚦/⛔), validation via /novelty-check and /research-review, a review→revise→re-review feedback loop, state-persistence resume logic, and a final pre-submission checklist. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good section structure and clearly signaled shared-references links, but no bundle reference files exist and the eight agency specification tables are inlined in a single ~690-line file rather than split into per-agency reference files. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |