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71%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, highly actionable skill body with excellent progressive disclosure — every reference is real, one level deep, and clearly navigable, and the multi-step workflow includes validation gates and a CI feedback loop. The main costs are token inefficiency (a Wikipedia definition quote and a duplicated risk table between the template and worked example) and a dangling reference to a nonexistent scripts/build-risk-coverage.py in the CI-gate example.
Suggestions
Remove the duplicated four-risk table from the worked example (or from the Step 2 template) — the identical R-1 through R-4 rows appear twice; the worked example can reference the template table and show only the verdict, test-plan, and outcome deltas.
Trim the Wikipedia blockquote and surrounding overview prose that defines risk-based testing — a concept Claude already knows — down to the one sentence that matters: the matrix is the artifact that makes prioritization defensible.
Fix the dangling scripts/build-risk-coverage.py reference in Step 8e (either add the script to the bundle or reframe the snippet as illustrative), and correct the malformed heatmap table rows and the '(Step 2)' / '(Steps 6-7)' numbering quirks in the 'How to use' list.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The Wikipedia blockquote defining risk-based testing ("Risk-based testing (RBT) is 'a type of software testing...'") explains a concept Claude already knows, and the worked example repeats the identical four-risk table (R-1 through R-4) already shown in the Step 2 template. Not 4: this is more than minor over-explanation; not 2: the bulk of the body is dense, actionable tables and steps. | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Provides a copy-paste-ready matrix template, an executable grep command ("grep -r \"risk:R-001\\|risk:PR-001\" tests/ ..."), a concrete file layout, and a risk-class-to-test-type mapping. Not 5: the Step 8e CI gate invokes scripts/build-risk-coverage.py, which does not exist in the bundle (no scripts/ directory), and Step 8d describes the output document in prose rather than giving a template. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 1-8 are explicitly sequenced, a worked example runs the full flow, and validation is present (CI gate "fail if a critical-score risk becomes uncovered", coverage-depth verdict table, orphan detection, caveats section). Not 5: the heatmap table rows have mismatched column counts, and the 'How to use' summary mislabels step numbers (two items both cite '(Step 2)', '(Steps 6-7)' compresses distinct sections). | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | All six referenced files exist in references/, are exactly one level deep (reference files cross-link only to siblings), and are well-signaled both inline (Step 5, Step 8a) and via the 'Going deeper (referenced guides)' routing table. Heavyweight FMEA/Cost-of-Exposure tables, risk-storming facilitation, calibration, and review checklists are appropriately externalized while the core matrix template stays inline. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |