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Use when connecting your agent to external APIs, tools, or services via Gateway, or restricting tool access with Cedar policies. Handles gateway setup, target types, outbound auth (OAuth, API key, IAM), credentials, and Cedar policy authoring. Triggers on: "connect to API", "add gateway", "connect to MCP server", "Lambda tools", "OpenAPI", "gateway target", "Cedar policy", "restrict tools", "policy engine", "gateway auth error", "store API key", "outbound credential", "env var API key", "API key None after deploy", "credential not available after deploy", "should this be a gateway target", "give my agent tools", "add tools to agent". Not for inbound auth (who can call your agent) — use agents-harden. Not for debugging agent behavior — use agents-debug. Not for VPC networking errors (agent can't reach APIs due to VPC) — use agents-build. Not for creating or hosting a new MCP server project — use agents-get-started.

ClawHub Agent Skills author: Amazon Web Services 1 file body ≈ 7 074 tokens Open the sourceclawhub.ai↗ analyzed 16 h ago

Handles gateway setup, target types, outbound auth (OAuth, API key, IAM), credentials, and Cedar policy authoring.

As a process F 69/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: references/policy.md, ../agents-build/references/multi-agent.md, ../agents-build/references/integrate.md

ProcedureAWSAI and agentstype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text
Runs in: OpenClaw Claude / Claude Code ChatGPT / Codex Gemini CLI Cursor GitHub Copilot / VS Code Qwen Code Kimi Code CLI Z.ai (GLM) DeepSeek (Deep Code) Mistral Vibe LangChain (deepagents) Goose OpenCode
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Technical rating
B
85/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
95
Quality 40%
71
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
F
69/100
Will not run
References files that are not bundled: references/policy.md, ../agents-build/references/multi-agent.md, ../agents-build/references/integrate.md
Tools and files w 18
0
Result and completion w 14
60
Inputs and preconditions w 11
70
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

What is at stake

Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.

Broad scope medium severity

Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.

If you install

The skill asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.

For the author

Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.

How to improve

  1. The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
  2. The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
For the model run — optional
  • 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

✓ No critical or high findings

Medium and low: 1
  • medium Broad scope meta-broad-allowed-tools SKILL.md:1
    Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bash
    allowed-tools: Read Grep Glob Bash

Files scanned: 1. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning body-long SKILL.md body ≈ 7074 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: references/policy.md
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: ../agents-build/references/multi-agent.md
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: ../agents-build/references/integrate.md
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: ../agents-build/references/request-headers.md

Process rating: all ten parameters 69/100

Will not run. References files that are not bundled: references/policy.md, ../agents-build/references/multi-agent.md, ../agents-build/references/integrate.md
  • 0Tools and files. 4 referenced file(s) missing: references/policy.md, ../agents-build/references/multi-agent.md, ../agents-build/references/integrate.md
  • 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
  • 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
  • 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 7074 tokens
  • 85Steps. 36 steps, 3 vague phrases
  • 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
  • 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
  • 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
  • 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
  • 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
  • medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
  • low 12 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

  • +3Description length 927: 120–800 characters recommended
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +5Description quotes 18 example trigger phrases
  • +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
  • +4Structure: 28 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 36 items
  • +3Output format is stated explicitly
  • +4Has examples (16 code blocks)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 71.