Conciseness

The body is dense, rule-driven prose with zero padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows — e.g. 'promotion.json, checksums of the two, which you can ignore' — and every token carries a non-obvious operational constraint.

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable: exact commands ('tessl memory pending --topic <topic> --out-dir <dir>', 'tessl memory save --topic <topic> --file <note file> --note-version <version>'), an exact line format ('- <fact> (<who>, <YYYY-MM-DD>)'), the facts.json shape, and named tool behavior for every refusal case.

Workflow Clarity

The situation ladder gives a sequenced decision procedure, and every risky path has an explicit validation/feedback loop — version mismatch re-runs 'pending' into a new folder, a >48 KB save deletes lines per invariant 8 and saves again, and a save that gets no answer is retried with interpretation of the follow-up refusal. This is a destructive/batch rewrite where dropped lines are gone, yet validation is exhaustively specified, so no cap applies.

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well organized (What done looks like / Invariants / Environment facts / Judgment) with nothing buried, and no bundle files exist to reference. Not 5 because at ~135 lines the inlined CLI reference in 'Environment facts' could arguably live in a separate reference file, exceeding the simple-skill threshold where section organization alone earns a 5.

Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete actions — 'merge restatements, apply newer facts and retractions, drop what can be checked live, and keep each line attributed and the note under 48 KB, then save the note, which clears the batch' — in third person, with comprehensive coverage of the skill's operations.

Completeness

It explicitly answers both 'what' (the full promote/merge/apply/drop/save workflow) and 'when' ('Use when Tessl's memory promotion job launches a run for a topic and passes it as the input TOPIC') with a concrete trigger condition.

Trigger Term Quality

It names the operative trigger terms ('memory promotion job', 'topic', 'pending facts', 'TOPIC') which are exactly what this context uses, but offers no synonyms or variations a user might phrase differently. Not 5 because coverage is good but not comprehensive with natural alternates; not 3 because the key terms are all present rather than partially missing.

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is sharply distinct — a specific vendor job ('Tessl's memory promotion job') with a specific input ('TOPIC') — so overlap with any other skill's triggers is minimal.