Content
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, highly actionable skill body: an 8-step workflow with real validation loops (render-then-verify, external review, partitioned checklist) and mostly copy-paste-ready code. Its weaknesses are redundancy (two overlapping figure-type tables, an off-topic opening blockquote) and the absence of any progressive disclosure — all reference material is inlined in a single long file.
Suggestions
Move the Step 8 correctness checklist and the Figure Type Reference table into a `references/` file (or delete the duplicate table, since Step 3 already covers it) to cut length and enable progressive disclosure.
Remove or relocate the opening blockquote about Codex reviewer installation — it is unrelated to figure generation and reads as injected noise at the top of the body.
Fix the bar-chart example to import from `paper_plot_style` and read data from a file, matching the skill's own "Do NOT hardcode data" Key Rule and making every snippet directly executable.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly dense, actionable material with no concept-explainer padding, but it can be tightened: the "Figure Type Reference" table largely duplicates the Step 3 decision tree, the opening blockquote about Codex reviewer installation is unrelated to figure generation, and the bar-chart example hardcodes data against the skill's own "Do NOT hardcode data" Key Rule. This matches anchor 3 (mostly efficient but could be tightened), not 2 since there is no tutorial-style over-explanation. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | The guidance is largely copy-paste ready: a complete style-config module, a working line-plot script, a bash run loop, LaTeX table and include snippets, and a concrete MCP review invocation. Minor gaps keep it below a 5 — the bar-chart snippet omits the `from paper_plot_style import *` line (so `COLORS`/`FONT_SIZE` are undefined as shown) and uses hardcoded values, and the Step 7 prompt leaves a raw `[VENUE]` placeholder. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Eight clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops: Step 5 requires render-then-verify on the rendered PDF/PNG (not the script) before review, Step 7 polls the reviewer to `done=true` and preserves `threadId` for follow-up, and Step 8 partitions a checklist into binding correctness rules and overridable guidance. This matches the top anchor — clear sequence, explicit validation, error-recovery loops, and a checklist for a complex process. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | There are no bundle files at all (verified: no references/, scripts/, or assets/ directories exist), so everything lives in one ~315-line SKILL.md. Section headers make it navigable, but content that clearly belongs in separate reference files — the figure-type reference table and the long Step 8 correctness checklist — is inlined, matching anchor 3 (some structure, but content that should be separate is inline) rather than 2 since sections are well-signaled. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |