Content
52%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.
The skill is highly actionable with a clear multi-step workflow and good validation checkpoints, but it badly violates token economy: five near-identical resolver blocks and explanatory prose pad the body, and the referenced shared-reference files do not exist in the bundle. Progression disclosure is undermined both by the missing referenced files and by content that should have been split out.
Suggestions
Extract the repeated $ARXIV_REPO/fetcher resolver bash block into a single shared reference (e.g. shared-references/fetcher-resolution.md) and link to it instead of inlining it five times.
Add the referenced files (fan-out-pattern.md, integration-contract.md, output-composition.md) to the bundle under shared-references/ so the links resolve, or remove the dead links.
Cut the 'Why use Semantic Scholar?' / 'Why use Gemini?' / 'Why use OpenAlex?' explanatory paragraphs — Claude already knows what these sources are; keep only the invocation contract and dedup rules.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The 27KB body is noticeably verbose: the same $ARXIV_REPO/fetcher resolver bash block is repeated nearly verbatim across five sources, and 'Why use X?' prose explains retrieval concepts Claude already knows. | 2 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, executable bash resolver chains, specific MCP tool invocations, and CLI commands with real flags; placeholders like QUERY/ARXIV_ID are justified substitution points rather than pseudocode. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear numbered sequence (Step 0a-0c, 1-6) with explicit graceful-degradation checkpoints (WARN emissions, 'stop and ask user' for requested-but-unavailable sources); the fan-out/dedup sub-flow has implicit rather than enumerated checkpoints. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | References three one-level-deep files (fan-out-pattern.md, integration-contract.md, output-composition.md) but none exist in the bundle — references/, scripts/, assets/, and ../shared-references/ are all absent — and the inlined 27KB of repeated resolver boilerplate belongs in those missing files. | 2 / 5 |
Total | 12 / 20 Passed |