Content
71%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 a dense but genuinely actionable policy: it names exact tools, fields, dispositions, and error-code responses, and sequences a clear state-reading → branch → disposition → completion-check workflow with real validation. Its main weaknesses are readability (redundant restatements and a tangled registration paragraph) and the absence of any progressive disclosure — 148 lines of inline policy with advanced registration rules that belong in a reference file.
Suggestions
Move the development-return registration regime (the long paragraph around `cat_cafe_development_return` / `read_development_return` / predecessorRegistrationId) into a reference file (e.g. references/development-return.md) and keep a two-line summary plus pointer in SKILL.md, since it is advanced policy irrelevant to the common branches.
Deduplicate repeated rules — "another status message is not continuation" and "reread current facts before acting" each appear multiple times — and break the registration paragraph into a short bulleted list.
Add one complete end-to-end example call (all required fields together) for the most common path, e.g. cat_cafe_admit_entrusted_work with basis, sourceRefs, idempotency key, outcome, closure condition, and expected signal filled in.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is telegraphic with zero padding of concepts Claude already knows, but rules are restated across sections ("another status message is not continuation" appears twice; "reread current facts before acting" recurs three times) and the return-registration block is a 23-line unbroken wall of policy. Anchor 4 (efficient, minor instances that could be trimmed) fits; not 5 because the redundancy and tangled registration paragraph mean not every token earns its place. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete tool calls with field-level specificity are given — `cat_cafe_resolve_development_work` with `scope { featureRef: "feature:F310", phaseKey: "B", acceptedRevision: "<40-character Git SHA>" }`, `sourceRefs: ["message:<sourceMessageId>"]`, named basis values, disposition verbs (resume/adopt/bind/admit), and per-error-code responses. Not 5 because no single complete example call shows all required fields together for a common case; the guidance is mostly executable with minor gaps. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear decision procedure is present: read source state (pending / accepted+admitted / accepted+needs_clarification / declined) → choose one of five explicit branches → follow the returned disposition → "Completion check" verifying the typed result carries the canonical Task owner ref/revision/receipt, with named error-recovery loops (retry scope_unverifiable, needs_clarification on unresolvable time). Not 5 because there are no checklists and the sequence is buried in dense prose, especially the registration sub-workflow. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Sections are well-organized (Read the exact source first; Choose one branch with five sub-branches; Clarification discipline; Completion check), but the skill is a single ~148-line file with no reference files at all, and advanced material — notably the development-return registration regime — is inlined when it plausibly belongs in a separate reference. Anchor 3 (some structure, content that should be separate is inline) fits; not 4 because inlining this much dense policy is more than a minor organization gap. | 3 / 5 |
Total | 15 / 20 Passed |