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.
The body delivers an exceptionally actionable, well-guarded deployment workflow — copy-paste commands, dry-run, and explicit approval gates before irreversible operations. Its weaknesses are duplication (script and version-rule descriptions repeated across sections) and a broken progressive-disclosure pattern: references/surfaces.md exists but is never linked from the body, whose inlined details duplicate it.
Suggestions
Link references/surfaces.md from the 'Supported Surfaces' section (e.g., 'See references/surfaces.md for per-surface config schemas and detection rules') and drop the inlined version-semantics detail that the reference file already covers.
Deduplicate script descriptions: keep one-line summaries in 'Bundled Scripts' and let Steps 1, 2, and 5 state only what to run and the decision each output drives, removing the repeated behavior lists.
Replace the fragile `echo '{{CHANGELOG}}' > /tmp/release-notes.md` with a safer multi-line write (e.g., a heredoc or Write tool) so Markdown changelogs with quotes and blank lines survive shell escaping.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly efficient — no concept teaching, dense tables and commands — but carries real duplication: each script's behavior is described in 'Bundled Scripts' and again in Steps 1, 2, and 5, and the marketplace version semantics appear in both 'Version Handling Rules' and again in Step 5's file-by-file list (and yet again in references/surfaces.md). This matches anchor 3 ('mostly efficient but could be tightened') rather than anchor 4, where over-explanation would be only minor; it is not anchor 2 since there is no padding or explanation of things Claude already knows. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable throughout: exact script invocations with example arguments (`node scripts/deploy-execute.mjs 1.2.0 --surfaces github,claude-code --dry-run`), concrete git/gh commands, per-skill `git diff v{{PREVIOUS}}..HEAD -- skills/{{SKILL_NAME}}/` commands, filled-in AskUserQuestion templates with placeholder-computation instructions, and a concrete undo command (`git reset --hard HEAD~1 && git tag -d v{{VERSION}}`). This matches anchor 5 (copy-paste ready commands covering common cases); all referenced scripts exist in scripts/. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The nine steps are strictly sequenced with 'Stop immediately if any step fails', and the irreversible-operation risk (push/tag/release) is well guarded: preflight validation, dry-run checkpoint, two AskUserQuestion approval gates before push, 'verify all files were updated correctly by reading them back', plus an Error Handling section with per-failure recovery and a dry-run-divergence check. This matches anchor 5 (explicit validation steps, feedback loops, error recovery) rather than anchor 4, which allows minor validation gaps. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The bundle contains references/surfaces.md with detailed per-surface config requirements, but the body never references or links to it — it instead inlines a surfaces table and the full version-handling semantics that surfaces.md already covers, so the reference file is orphaned and its content duplicated. Scripts are clearly signaled and exist, and structure is good, matching anchor 3 ('references present but not clearly signaled; content that should be separate is inline') rather than anchor 4, where references would be mostly clear and content mostly placed in the right file. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |