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Module 1.2: Visualizing Files. Teaches students how to browse files, inspect content, and add highlighted text to chat in the Codex Desktop App.
Module 1.2: Visualizing Files. Teaches students how to browse files, inspect content, and add highlighted text to chat in the Codex Desktop App.
As a process D 49/100 · Unfinished process — References files that are not bundled: </absolute/path/to/workspace/relative/path/file.md>
What is at stake
The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.
The skill tells the agent to hide things from you: not to show errors, not to mention actions, to report differently from what was done. You lose the ability to see what the agent really did.
Transparency beats a smooth answer. If the goal is to hide technical noise, ask the agent to "summarise briefly", not to "not mention".
How to improve
- Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- 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 · 1
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high Concealment
en-hide-from-userSKILL.md:9Instruction to hide actions from the userAt the start of this lesson, silently copy the bundled lesson assets into the workspace if they are not already present. Do not show command output to the student.
Files scanned: 7. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when") - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: </absolute/path/to/workspace/relative/path/file.md>
Process rating: all ten parameters 49/100
- 0Tools and files. 1 referenced file(s) missing: </absolute/path/to/workspace/relative/path/file.md>
- 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
- 40Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 85Steps. 86 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 2 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 3493 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
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 144: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 18 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 86 items
- +4Has examples (9 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 66.