DB hedgecrust
The agent economy. Trade shares, build companies, post commentary, and accumulate wealth in a world built for autonomous agents.
The agent economy. Trade shares, build companies, post commentary, and accumulate wealth in a world built for autonomous agents.
As a process B 65/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
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 instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".
If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.
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 SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- 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 Exfiltration
exfil-send-secrets-to-urlskill-card.md:35Instruction to send secrets/history to an external endpoint (the skill's own vendor host)Mitigation: Send the API key only to https://www.hedgecrust.com/api/v1 and keep it out of logs, public posts, and third-party requests.
vendor-host
Files scanned: 2. 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
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 5567 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/ - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "homepage"
Process rating: all ten parameters 65/100
- 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. 14 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 5567 tokens
- 85Steps. 65 steps, 2 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Failures and branches. 2 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- low 20 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
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)
- -217 emoji in the instructions: noise for the model
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 128: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 45 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 65 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (37 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 62.