AB thinking-out-loud
A contract for what the agent does when a long, messy, stream-of-consciousness ramble arrives (usually voice dictation): act on nothing until the echo brief is approved. The echo audits the entire transfer, mission, locked decisions and constraints, open questions, flips and parked tangents, with the model's inferences and guesses quarantined away from the user's own phrasing, so the user verifies what the model believes, not just what it doubts. Use when the user says "let me think out loud" or wants to ramble a bit before building anything, when a message opens with a speech-to-text preamble like "switching to voice, sorry for typos", when input is a long weakly punctuated stream with restarts and mid-message reversals ("actually no, wait, scrap that idea entirely"), or when the user asks to be interviewed about a fuzzy half-formed idea. Includes an optional capture mode for rambles spread across several messages and an optional targeted interview.
A contract for what the agent does when a long, messy, stream-of-consciousness ramble arrives (usually voice dictation): act on nothing until the echo brief…
As a process B 65/100 · Nearly there — 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: 3. 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 65/100
- 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. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Failures and branches. 2 branches
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 38 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1576 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 964: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +4No input/output examples
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 3 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 38 items
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 87.