BD search-first
Research-before-coding workflow: search npm/PyPI, MCP servers, skills, and GitHub for existing tools before writing custom code, then adopt, extend, or build. Launches the researcher agent for non-trivial needs. Use when starting a feature, adding a dependency or integration, or about to write a utility that may already exist.
The skill promises a research-before-coding workflow: check npm, PyPI, MCP servers, and GitHub before writing custom code. Sounds sensible, but the files contain only 1673 tokens—essentially instructions to launch a researcher agent. Tests show quality at 84 and safety at 100, yet process scores just 48: the skill lacks scripts that automate the search itself. What you get is a template for manual prompts to an AI. No model runs recorded.
Install if you need a framework to organize thinking before development. Skip it if you expect automated dependency discovery.
Research-before-coding workflow: search npm/PyPI, MCP servers, skills, and GitHub for existing tools before writing custom code, then adopt, extend, or build.
As a process D 48/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
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: 1. 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 48/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 3 mutating operations with no state check
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 100Steps. 35 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1673 tokens
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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 328: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 22 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 35 items
- +4Has examples (5 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 84.