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85%Reviews 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 methodology skill with a clear five-step workflow, validation checkpoints, and properly split one-level references. Its only weakness is verbosity - rhetorical emphasis is repeated across sections where a single statement would carry the point.
Suggestions
Consolidate the 'distribution, not a commitment' message into a single canonical statement; it currently recurs in Step 4, the Output format, the template, and the anti-patterns.
Trim editorial flourishes like 'It is a guess with a decimal point' that add tone but not guidance.
Move the row-by-row worked arithmetic fully into the reference (it already is) and consider shortening the inline Limitations bullets, several of which restate points made in the steps.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is largely lean domain knowledge Claude lacks (PERT formulas, Wideband Delphi sequence, IRS IRM pillars), but rhetorical flourishes such as 'An estimate without a ledger is not an estimate. It is a guess with a decimal point.' and the 'distribution, not a commitment' point repeated across Steps, Output, and the template could be tightened. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Concrete executable guidance throughout - explicit PERT formulas 'E = (a + 4m + b) / 6', a six-category ledger table with example entries, a default ownership-split table, three allocation rules, and a filled output template - meeting the copy-paste-ready anchor for an instruction-only skill. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Five numbered steps are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints ('An area with no risk weight is not estimable', 'Force at least one risk-1 and one risk-3', 'all six categories present') and a feedback loop ('Change the input and recompute the affected rows' rather than padding). | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | A clear overview points to two real one-level-deep references ([references/worked-example.md] and [references/effort-estimate-output-template.md]); the detailed arithmetic and the filled template are appropriately split out and well-signaled with markdown links. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |