Content
77%Weight 40%Scale 1-3Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is concise, well-structured, and uses a real single-level reference for detail. It is weaker on actionability (checklist rather than executable harness/code) and lacks an explicit verification checkpoint for the replay-proof step.
Suggestions
Add a minimal, runnable replay harness skeleton (e.g., a short Python snippet framing a message, computing its checksum, and sending it) so the guidance is copy-paste executable rather than checklist-only.
Insert an explicit verification checkpoint in the workflow, such as 'Confirm acceptance by re-running the minimal transcript and asserting the server's accepted response/side effect before broad mutation.'
Show one concrete worked example of a 'change one field at a time' mutation that flips a rejected transcript to accepted, to make the decisive-branch proof actionable.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence: no preamble about what protocols are, each line is an actionable directive, and the reference is deferred rather than inlined. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | Guidance is concrete in direction (recover framing, build minimal replay harness, mutate one field at a time) but stays at the checklist level with no executable code, commands, or worked examples; the anchor for score 2 fits 'some concrete guidance but incomplete.' | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Quick Start and a numbered Workflow give a clear sequence, but there are no explicit validation/verification checkpoints for the replay verification step (proving the accepted branch), which the rubric treats as a checkpoint gap capping this at 2. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | A concise overview body points to one clearly signaled, single-level reference (references/custom-protocol-replay.md) that genuinely exists and holds the checklists, with no nested reference chains. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |