BC courtroom
AI Courtroom for behavioral oversight. Autonomous daemon that monitors conversations, detects behavioral violations, and posts cases to a public API. Auto-starts on installation.
As a process C 56/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The text contains phrases like "ignore previous instructions" or "you are now…". That is an attempt to hijack the agent: it may break your rules, the system limits or company policy.
An honest skill does not need them: state the role and the rules directly without overriding other instructions. Otherwise catalog scanners and corporate filters will block the listing.
How to improve
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- 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 · 4
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 4
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medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previousanalyze.js:87Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (detector / deny-list definition)const phrases = ['ignore previous instructions', 'disregard your training', 'pretend you are', 'you are now', 'DAN mode', 'developer mode', 'system prompt', 'ignore your constraints'];
detector -
medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previouscourtroom.js:104Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (quoted — discussed, not commanded)'ignore previous instructions',
quoted -
medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previousdaemon.js:147Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (detector / deny-list definition)const phrases = ['ignore previous instructions', 'disregard your training', 'pretend you are', 'you are now', 'DAN mode', 'developer mode', 'system prompt', 'ignore your constraints'];
detector -
medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previousskill.js:107Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (quoted — discussed, not commanded)'ignore previous instructions',
quoted
Files scanned: 10. 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")
Process rating: all ten parameters 56/100
- 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. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 17 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1253 tokens
- low 10 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)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -2localhost URLs: will not work for another user
- -32 of 2 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 178: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 16 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 17 items
- +4Has examples (12 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 67.