AC first-reader
Beta readers for any draft, run by simulating how a real reader experiences it, moment by moment. A skim gate, a no-lookahead timed read producing an attention transcript with quit points, a recall test of what a reader remembers the next day, and a trust ledger of the implied author. Use when the user asks for a beta read, beta readers, test readers, human review, reader review, to read something like a human, to be a first reader, whether a piece holds attention or will actually get read, for a quick read of whether a busy skimmer would even open a post, what readers will remember or take away tomorrow, where readers stop reading or bounce, or why a draft still feels off or hollow after anti-slop or humanizer edits. Final gate before publishing; reports where the reading broke; never rewrites.
Beta readers for any draft, run by simulating how a real reader experiences it, moment by moment.
As a process C 61/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
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: 13. 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 61/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 9 mutating operations with no state check
- 55Failures and branches. 1 branches
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 100Steps. 19 steps
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 3985 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 12 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- low The response is described with custom markup (15 tags): a typed call is more reliable
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)
- +3Description length 806: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 13 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 19 items
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (4 of 4)
- +3All 6 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 88.
In the sandbox Скрипты не запустились
The skill's scripts were run in a throwaway machine: no network, fake keys in the home directory, a tracer watching. We wrote down what they did. Reaching for the network or for secrets caps the technical grade at C; a quiet run adds no points.
Запущено 6 скриптов; каждому дали двадцать секунд, поддельный домашний каталог с ключами и сеть, в которой ничего нет.
Ни один не дошёл до работы — им не хватило зависимостей, аргументов или файлов. Это не отзыв о поведении: наблюдать было не за чем.
scripts/ask.py | не запустился: Usage: |
scripts/feed.py | не запустился: feed.py: error: the following arguments are required: cmd |
scripts/recall.py | не запустился: Usage: python3 recall.py <session-dir> |
scripts/room.py | не запустился: room.py: error: the following arguments are required: run_dir |
scripts/signals.py | не запустился: Usage: python3 signals.py <draft> [--json] |
scripts/skim.py | не запустился: Usage: python3 skim.py <draft.md|draft.txt> |
6 Oct 2026