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-sequenced orchestrator skill with strong workflow clarity and concrete sub-skill invocations, but it is overlong for a SKILL.md: duplicate diagrams and inlined reference material that should live in bundle files hurt conciseness and progressive disclosure.
Suggestions
Move the patent-type comparison tables, jurisdiction deliverables table, and final-report template into separate reference files under references/ (e.g. PATENT_TYPES.md, JURISDICTION_OUTPUT.md, REPORT_TEMPLATE.md) and link to them from the body to improve progressive disclosure.
Remove the duplicate ASCII pipeline diagram in 'Composing with Other Workflows' — the Overview already depicts the idea-discovery tracks — and drop the Acknowledgements section to reduce token load.
Tighten editorial prose such as 'Patents are about protecting inventions (legal scope), not publishing results (academic contribution).' to the operational minimum Claude needs.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient operational guidance, but includes redundant material — two ASCII pipeline diagrams depicting the same idea-discovery tracks, a verbose final-report template, and an Acknowledgements section — that could be tightened; some explanatory prose ('Patents are about protecting inventions ...') pads rather than instructs. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, executable invocations with arguments (e.g. /prior-art-search "patent/INVENTION_BRIEF.md"), explicit file paths, a state JSON schema, and checkpoint templates — mostly copy-paste ready with only minor gaps where sub-skill internals are delegated. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Phases 0–5 are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints (🚦 Checkpoint, ⛔ STOP HERE), state persistence and resume logic, and feedback loops (review rounds, novelty re-check on adjustments), matching the anchor for explicit validation steps and error-recovery loops. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Good section structure, but at ~340 lines the body is monolithic with no bundle files in references/scripts/assets; material that belongs in separate files (patent-type comparison tables, jurisdiction deliverables table, final-report template, state schema) is inlined rather than split into one-level-deep references. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |