Content
92%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 well-sequenced, highly actionable workflow with explicit validation feedback loops and clean one-level-deep reference splitting. Its only weakness is mild over-explanation in a few prose asides that keep it from being fully token-lean.
Suggestions
Tighten the rationale asides (e.g. 'A repo-defined schedule is a recurring launch run declared in tessl.json so it is reviewed and version-controlled next to the code it runs against' and 'Renaming a key later is a delete-plus-create, so pick a durable one') to the bare rule, since Claude can infer the why.
The 'Author a new skill' section is the longest block; consider whether the credential name-matching rules (canonical vs underscore-suffix vs bare substring) could move to a reference file, leaving the inline step a short pointer.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Largely lean and task-focused with concrete commands and rules, but includes a few explanatory asides ('A repo-defined schedule is... so it is reviewed and version-controlled', 'Renaming a key later is a delete-plus-create, so pick a durable one') that could be trimmed; not a 5 because not every token is load-bearing. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, executable commands throughout — 'tessl schedule --help', 'tessl env list --workspace <workspace>', 'tessl schedule validate', 'tessl schedule list --json --limit 100' — plus a copy-paste-ready minimal JSON entry and explicit bash pre-flight invocations covering the common cases. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clearly numbered seven-step sequence (Preflight → Gather → Author → Choose key → Write → Validate → Explain) with an explicit validation checkpoint and feedback loop: 'Fix anything it reports and run it again until it passes', plus a troubleshooting list for missing schedules. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md stays an operational overview and pushes the full field list and cadence details to clearly signaled one-level-deep references — [references/schedules-block.md] and [references/cron-cadence.md] — both of which exist as real bundle files; navigation is easy. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |