Rule Quality Evaluator

A rule that cannot be violated cannot be followed. Most instruction files fail because of unfalsifiable guidance, redundant noise, and implicit knowledge that never made it to paper. Score rules against seven properties, identify structural weaknesses, optionally verify with live tasks.

Two-Phase Overview

• Phase 1 — Static Critic (always): Read rules, score against Seven Properties, detect structural issues, produce scorecard. No agent execution.
• Phase 2 — Behavioral Test (opt-in): Generate coding tasks, derive assertions, hand off to context-eval, synthesize report.

Interview-only fallback: If no instruction file accessible, ask user to paste rules. Flag at end: "I can't verify codebase alignment — code pattern checks need manual verification."

Phase 1 — Static Critic

Step 1: Ingest

Read instruction file(s). Detect format (Markdown prose, structured rules list, YAML front matter, fenced sections). Parse into individual rules — one rule = one discrete behavioral instruction. Split on bullets, numbered items, or paragraph breaks starting an imperative.