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86%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 concise, well-structured instruction-only skill with a clear sequenced workflow, explicit validation checkpoints, and a clean one-level reference split. Its main gap is the absence of concrete tooling/commands and an explicit channel-failure retry loop.
Suggestions
Add a few concrete tool commands next to the channel checks (e.g. exiftool for metadata, zsteg/pngcheck for LSB/palette, ffprobe for container layout) so guidance is executable, not just descriptive.
Add an explicit re-rank/retry step in the Inspect Candidate Channels phase for when a candidate channel yields no payload (e.g. "if a channel produces nothing reproducible, demote it and try the next-ranked candidate").
Name the target file extensions (e.g. .png/.bmp/.wav/.mp4/.pdf) in either the description or the checklist to improve trigger-term coverage.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Lean and efficient throughout — it never explains what steganography or containers are, assumes Claude's competence, and every line is directive guidance that earns its place. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete about what to inspect ("alpha, palette order, RGB or YUV planes, LSBs, spectrogram features, document object streams, video frame deltas") but provides no executable tool commands (e.g. exiftool, zsteg, steghide), leaving the agent to choose tooling. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear sequenced phases (Establish Container Truth → Inspect Candidate Channels → Reconstruct Hidden Payload Path) with explicit validation ("Stop when the hidden payload is reproduced, not merely suspected"; "a channel hit is not the same as artifact recovery"), but lacks an explicit re-rank/retry loop when a channel fails. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Well-structured overview with a single clearly-signaled one-level-deep reference ("Load references/stego-media.md for the media checklist, channel ranking guide, and evidence packaging"), and the referenced file exists and holds the deferred detail. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |