Content
92%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 high-quality procedural skill: executable commands, rigorous validation and feedback loops across a 14-step workflow, and clean one-level-deep reference structure. The only weakness is mild conciseness loss from restated rules and self-explanatory asides.
Suggestions
Remove restated rules from 'Important Rules' that already appear in the numbered steps (e.g. 'Read the stack README first' duplicates Steps 1 and 3); keep only net-new guidance such as the PGLite-for-dev/test rule.
Drop self-explanatory prose after commands — e.g. Step 7's 'This creates the OpenSpec directory structure and installs agent instructions for Claude and Antigravity.' — since the commands speak for themselves.
In Step 10, summarize the required proposal.md sections inline and defer to the openspec instructions JSON as the authoritative template rather than re-stating the full skeleton, reducing boilerplate in the body.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Largely lean and procedural with no concept-explanation padding, but the 'Important Rules' section restates guidance already in the numbered steps (e.g. 'Read the stack README first' duplicates Steps 1 and 3) and a few post-command asides could be trimmed — minor instances of over-emphasis rather than full verbosity. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Fully executable guidance throughout — concrete commands ('openspec init --tools claude,antigravity', 'openspec new change "<change-name>"', 'git commit -m "feat: initialize ..."'), documented placeholders, and a copy-paste proposal.md template covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | 14 clearly sequenced steps with explicit validation checkpoints (Step 1 input validation, Step 4 missing-template stop, Step 7 verify openspec/ created) and a feedback loop in Step 10 (retry/skip/abort on 'openspec new change' failure), matching the top anchor for fragile batch operations. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Clear overview body pointing to well-signaled one-level-deep references — references/stacks/<stack>/README.md, references/common/roadmap-template.md, references/common/{mcp.json,AGENTS.md} — all of which exist, with content appropriately split across common/ and stacks/ and a bottom References list for navigation. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |