AC arista-device-health
Arista EOS device health check and triage procedure. Use when troubleshooting Arista 7000, 7500, or 720X series switches — assessing CPU, memory, interfaces, environment, and agent/daemon health. Covers MLAG state validation and VXLAN/EVPN health as data center extension steps. EOS is Linux-native — standard Linux diagnostics (bash top, df, dmesg) are valid troubleshooting tools alongside EOS show commands. Includes agent health monitoring via show agent for EOS-specific daemon failure detection.
Arista EOS device health check and triage procedure.
As a process C 64/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers
How to improve
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 4. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 64/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4276 tokens
- 100Steps. 56 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 501: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 24 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 56 items
- +4Has examples (13 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 2)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 89.