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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 strong, dense procedural skill: fully executable code at every step, an explicit sequence with validation checkpoints, and a clean split between the inline core workflow and one-level-deep reference files. The only flaw is minor redundancy between the Overview/Step 1 and the Limitations section, which keeps conciseness at 4 rather than 5.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is lean and assumes competence (no SMTP/REST/pytest primers, dense tables and code), but two facts are each stated twice: "Pin an image tag; the API changes between releases" (Step 1) reappears in Limitations, and "It never delivers mail" (Overview) reappears as "Mailpit does NOT actually deliver email". These minor duplications keep it below the every-token-earns-its-place anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is fully executable: a docker run command, a curl readiness check, a per-stack config table, a complete Python helper module (unique_address/wait_for_message/delete_messages_to), a concrete test with a real token regex, a chaos helper with try/finally reset, and a CI yaml. The only app-specific calls (trigger_password_reset, run_retry_worker) are explicitly commented as "the app call under test" and are necessarily app-dependent rather than a gap. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-6 are clearly sequenced (run → point app → isolate mailbox → assert → chaos → CI) with explicit validation checkpoints: "Check it is up before any test" with a curl command, CI "curl --retry 10 --retry-connrefused", poll-with-timeout that raises a clear AssertionError, and a finally-block chaos reset. The anti-patterns table doubles as a checklist. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The core workflow stays inline while advanced material (full email flows, MailHog legacy, migration) is split into three real files in references/, each clearly signaled with its purpose in both "When to use" and "References". Verified against the bundle: all referenced paths exist and references are one level deep (reference files link only to siblings and back to the host SKILL.md). | 5 / 5 |
Total | 19 / 20 Passed |