Content
85%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 well-structured curatorial workflow with explicit sequencing, genuine validation feedback loops for its destructive operations, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure. The weaker spots are token efficiency (the Worked Example largely restates the step sections) and small executability gaps in the bundled scripts.
Suggestions
Condense the Worked Example to only what differs from Steps 1–5 (starting state, decisions made, 142→139 result) — it currently re-narrates the duplicate-group table and README structure already shown, costing tokens without new guidance.
Make the overlap detector end-to-end executable: replace the `steps = [...]` placeholder in scripts/step-overlap.py with input wiring (e.g., reading the extraction output from stdin or a file path argument).
Fix the pre-merge gate's remediation hint in check-new-steps.sh: "Run: bash scripts/step-overlap.py" invokes a Python script with bash and passes it no input; correct it to `python scripts/step-overlap.py <extracted-steps-file>` (or pipe the git-diff extraction into it).
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is mostly lean — audit output, duplicate rules, consolidation template, directory layout, and anti-patterns all earn their tokens — but the Worked Example re-walks Steps 1–5 and the Overview's proliferation narrative is mildly motivational. This is "efficient; minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed" rather than the every-token-earns-its-place level. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete guidance throughout (normalization rule, duplicate-group table template, README format, verified executable commands in references/step-extraction-and-overlap.md), but two minor gaps in the bundle scripts: the overlap detector has a `steps = [...]` placeholder and the pre-merge gate says "Run: bash scripts/step-overlap.py" — invoking a Python script via bash with no input wiring. Mostly executable with minor gaps, not fully copy-paste ready. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1–6 are explicitly ordered ("Work through Steps 1-6 below in order"), and the destructive consolidation step carries a full validate→fix→re-run loop ("run the full BDD suite and assert zero undefined or ambiguous steps... fix that reference and re-run"), plus hard-reject halts in the coverage map. Explicit validation, feedback loops, and checklist-style conditions match the top anchor, so the destructive-operation cap does not apply. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | Both referenced bundle files (references/step-extraction-and-overlap.md, references/coverage-map.md) exist, are one level deep with no further nesting, and are clearly signaled both at point of need and in a closing References section. Deep material (per-runner extraction commands, scripts, fingerprinting method) is appropriately split out while the overview and workflow stay inline. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |