Content
78%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 content is a lean, well-organized overview that pushes detail into clearly signaled one-level-deep references and provides concrete templates for help/error output and conventions. Its main weakness is mild redundancy across the Gates/Mistakes/Rules tables and template-style rather than copy-paste-runnable code.
Suggestions
Consolidate overlapping rules: keep each convention in one place (Hard Gates OR Common Mistakes OR Rules) and cross-reference rather than restating color-only-indicator and flag-bypass rules three times.
Add per-phase verification steps (e.g. 'Phase 1 done: confirm grammar is uniform and depth ≤ 3 before Phase 2') so checkpoints gate each phase, not just the whole build.
Provide at least one fully copy-paste-runnable code snippet (e.g. a minimal argument parser or TTY-detection snippet) in a reference file to lift actionability from templates to executable examples.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and assumes Claude's competence — no primer on what a CLI is — but the same rules recur across Hard Gates, Common Mistakes, and Rules tables (e.g. color-only indicators, flag-bypass), adding minor redundancy that could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete, executable patterns abound — the G1 help and G2 error format blocks, exit codes (130/143), exact XDG paths, and 'time mycli --version' — but these are templates to follow rather than fully copy-paste runnable scripts, keeping it just below the top anchor. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | A clear Phase 1–7 sequence with Hard Gates as enforced checkpoints and an explicit 'evaluate after building' feedback loop is present, but the gates are cross-cutting constraints rather than per-phase verify-this-step checkpoints between phases. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a well-structured overview with a Quick Decision Guide mapping needs to eight real one-level-deep reference files, each phase ending in a clearly signaled 'Load references/X.md' pointer; no nested references exist in the bundle. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |