Content
78%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 is concise, well-structured, and actionable, with strong review-priority and classification guidance. Its main weakness is progressive disclosure: the skill signals detailed references in references/, templates/, and standalone files, but none of those bundle files actually exist, leaving the referenced material unreachable.
Suggestions
Ship the referenced bundle files (references/concurrency.md, references/lifetime.md, references/error-handling.md, references/templates.md, references/performance.md, references/rule-map.md, GOTCHAS.md, templates/phase0-starter.md) or remove the dangling references from the body.
Add at least one concrete example of a categorized finding (e.g. an Ownership-severity comment with a fix) to lift actionability from directive guidance to copy-paste-ready.
Add an explicit review feedback loop (e.g. run clang-tidy/sanitizers → triage by severity → re-run to confirm a fix) to give workflow_clarity a validation checkpoint.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean throughout — short bulleted lists and directives with no explanation of C++ concepts Claude already knows, e.g. 'Do not mechanically replace raw pointers. Classify first.' Every section earns its tokens. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, actionable guidance — a review priority order, a tooling discovery list (compile_commands.json, .clang-tidy), 'Run clang-tidy before eyeballing code', an ownership classification taxonomy, and a severity-tagged output format — but few copy-paste commands or example findings beyond clang-tidy. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Clear sequences exist (Review Priority order, Tool First, Modernization Discipline safety→refactor→style→perf) with a checkpoint rule ('Never mix safety-critical changes with style rewrites'), but there is no explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loop for the review process. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The Condition Loading section is well-designed one-level-deep progressive disclosure, but every referenced file (references/concurrency.md, references/lifetime.md, GOTCHAS.md, templates/phase0-starter.md, PROJECT_CONSTITUTION.md, ADAPTER_POLICY.md) is absent from the bundle, so navigation is broken. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |