Content
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
The body is highly actionable with executable commands, YAML configs, and a well-sequenced workflow including a verify-and-rerun loop, and it correctly offloads the rule catalog to a real reference file. Its main weakness is mild verbosity and repetition between the summary and the per-step sections.
Suggestions
Collapse the redundancy between the 'How to use' summary and the Step sections — keep the summary as a brief index and let each Step section own its commands, or vice versa, to avoid repeating 'gosec ./...' and the same flags twice.
Trim the conceptual taint-analysis explanation in the Overview (Claude already knows what taint tracking and AST/SSA are); keep only the gosec-specific distinction that matters for choosing this skill.
Consolidate the duplicate suppression examples: the Step 5 table, the mandatory template block, and the worked example all show '// #nosec' lines — keep one canonical template and cross-reference it.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient concrete commands, but there is redundancy — 'gosec ./...' and the per-step commands reappear in both the 'How to use' summary and the numbered Step sections — plus a short concept explanation of taint analysis ('tracks input flow through method chains, which catches injection patterns linters miss') that Claude already knows. It is not a 1 because the bulk is executable code rather than padded conceptual prose, but it could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready guidance: 'go install github.com/securego/gosec/v2/cmd/gosec@latest', 'gosec -fmt sarif -out results.sarif ./...', a complete .golangci.yml, CI workflow YAML, and concrete '// #nosec G404 -- Reason: ...' suppression examples. This matches the 'fully executable code/commands; copy-paste ready' anchor. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | A numbered 'How to use' (1-7) maps each step to a dedicated Step section with a clear sequence, and the worked example closes with a verification loop ('Re-run gosec -fmt sarif -out gosec.sarif ./...; the SARIF now reports zero HIGH findings') plus a quarterly '#nosec' re-review checkpoint and an anti-patterns checklist. It is not the level-2 anchor because validation/re-run checkpoints are explicit rather than implicit. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is an overview that pushes the detailed rule table to a clearly signaled one-level-deep reference ('The full lookup table ... lives in references/rule-catalog.md'), and that bundle file is present. This matches the 'clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references; content appropriately split' anchor, not the level-2 case where content that should be separate is inline. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |