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 a lean, well-structured reference with concrete schedules, math, a worked numeric example, and clear use/anti-pattern guidance. Its only weakness is mild redundancy of the core false-positive-inflation mechanism between the Overview and a dedicated section that could be merged.
Suggestions
Merge or trim the 'Why naive peeking inflates false positives' section since the Overview already states the inflation mechanism; keep only the new detail (the compounding/30-day framing and the Microsoft UI-pattern examples).
Move the Microsoft Experimentation Platform URL and the arXiv/Optimizely citations into the References section rather than interrupting the prose, reducing inline link clutter.
Consider folding the 'Decision boundary in tests' table behind a brief pointer if this reference is meant to stay a pure catalog, since it reads as platform-implementation guidance rather than conceptual reference.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Mostly efficient with terse tables and no padding of concepts Claude knows, but the core inflation mechanism is restated in both 'Overview' ('Looking at the data and stopping when significance is reached before the pre-declared end inflates the false-positive rate') and 'Why naive peeking inflates false positives' ('at each look, the test has a fresh chance to spuriously hit'), which could be consolidated. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Concrete, actionable guidance throughout: named schedules with their alpha patterns, the math 'Σ alpha_k = alpha_total', and a worked example giving exact per-look/per-metric alpha values (0.011 per look; 0.001 per (look, metric)). | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | 'How to use this reference' provides a clearly sequenced 5-step process (choose regime, pick sequential schedule, lock the look schedule, read peek-protected p-value, stack corrections), and the anti-patterns table supplies explicit fix guidance for each failure mode. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | No bundle files exist, so the single well-organized file with clearly delineated sections (Overview, How to use, When to use, Three corrections, Worked example, Anti-patterns, Limitations, References) satisfies the simple-skill guideline for a top score; cross-skill catalog references are clearly signaled. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |