Content
76%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 tight, well-structured instruction-only skill for a single ALFWorld action: lean on tokens and concrete in its action format. Its main gap is workflow validation — the success/failure loop is delegated to a reference rather than handled inline with an explicit checkpoint.
Suggestions
Add an explicit validation checkpoint after 'take', e.g. confirm the observation reports the object now in inventory before proceeding, instead of only branching to troubleshooting on 'Nothing happened'.
Inline a one-line success check (observation contains 'You pick up') so the feedback loop is self-contained rather than deferred to the reference.
Optionally note expected failure modes inline (wrong location, exact name mismatch) before pointing to troubleshooting.md, so the core workflow stands alone.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is a lean ~15 lines with well-organized Inputs/Process/Output sections and no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows; every line earns its place, matching the 'lean and efficient' anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Actionability | It gives the concrete action format 'take {object} from {source_receptacle}' with real example identifiers ('toiletpaper 1', 'toilet 1') and points to a troubleshooting reference, but it is a templated action string rather than copy-paste code covering multiple cases, so it sits at mostly-executable rather than fully-executable. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps are clearly sequenced (Verify Context, Execute Action, Handle Feedback), but the destructive/batch cap applies: pickup mutates inventory and the flow defers failure handling to an external reference rather than validating success before proceeding, capping this at 3; it is not 4 because the validation checkpoint is implicit, not an explicit verify step. | 3 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The overview body is appropriately short and offloads failure detail to a real one-level-deep reference (references/troubleshooting.md, which exists), with clear signaling; it is not 5 because the single reference is the only detail file and navigation could be more explicitly structured, but for a skill of this size the split is good. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |