Conciseness

The body is ~35 lean lines with no padding and no explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every section (why retired, what replaces it, redirect guidance, related skills) earns its place. The time-sensitive details (retirement date, paused agent ID) live in an explicitly deprecated notice, so the date-penalty guideline does not apply. Matches anchor 5: every token earns its place.

Actionability

Directives are fully concrete with named targets: "Run missing_docs in drift-watch mode from the warpdotdev/docs repo", "Invoke write-feature-docs directly and interactively", plus specific paths (scripts/check_new_release.py, .agents/references/docs-worthiness-criteria.md). Per the instruction-only scoring note, absence of code is not penalized when guidance is actionable, and this guidance is maximally actionable — anchor 5.

Workflow Clarity

This is a single-purpose skill whose one action — never invoke, redirect by intent — is unambiguous, and the "If you were about to run this" section lays out a clear three-scenario decision structure. No destructive or batch operations are instructed, so the validation cap does not apply; the simple-skill exception yields 5.

Progressive Disclosure

The body is under 50 lines, needs no external references (the skill ships no bundle — references/, scripts/, and assets/ do not exist), and is organized into well-labeled sections each with a distinct role. The files it names belong to the replacement skill's bundle in another repo, not this one. Per the under-50-lines guideline, well-organized sections alone merit 5.

Specificity

"This skill scanned for merged PRODUCT.md specs and auto-drafted docs PRs" names the domain and several concrete actions, and the replacement's mechanics ("triggered by the weekly release and gated on documentation-worthiness by the missing_docs skill") are also spelled out. It sits between anchor 3 (only 1-2 actions, not comprehensive) and 5, fitting 4: several specific actions with minor gaps.

Completeness

It explicitly answers what the skill did ("scanned for merged PRODUCT.md specs and auto-drafted docs PRs") and when to use it — never ("Do not invoke, and do not schedule") — plus a concrete redirect trigger ("If you were about to run this skill to find docs gaps, run missing_docs in drift-watch mode instead"). Both what and when are explicit with concrete trigger phrases, matching anchor 5.

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases a user would say are present — "docs gaps", "documentation for features that had not shipped", "docs PRs", "newly shipped features" — and the redirect clause "If you were about to run this skill to find docs gaps" is a natural trigger sentence. A few common variations (e.g. "missing docs", "document a new feature") are absent, so it matches anchor 4 rather than 5.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Named skills (missing_docs, write-feature-docs), a specific repo (warpdotdev/docs), and a specific artifact (PRODUCT.md specs) carve out a clear niche, and the explicit do-not-invoke instruction minimizes the risk of this firing on general docs-related queries. This matches anchor 5 (clear niche with distinct triggers, minimal conflict risk).