BC soma
Expert guide for participating in the SOMA network — a decentralized system that trains a foundation model through competition. Provides data submission workflows, model training pipelines, reward claiming, SDK code generation, CLI command guidance, and competitive strategy optimization. Use when user mentions "SOMA", "soma-sdk", "soma-models", "submit data to SOMA", "train a SOMA model", "SOMA targets", "SOMA rewards", "next-byte prediction network", "decentralized model training", or asks about earning SOMA tokens through data or model contributions. Do NOT use for general machine learning, PyTorch, or JAX questions unrelated to the SOMA network.
As a process C 55/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
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 skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
How to improve
- 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 · 5
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 5
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shellreferences/cli-reference.md:11Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -fsSL https://sup.soma.org | bash
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shellSKILL.md:62Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -fsSL https://sup.soma.org | bash && sup install soma
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvreferences/quickstart-patterns.md:29Reads a .env filecp .env.example .env
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvSKILL.md:73Reads a .env filecp .env.example .env
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shellSKILL.md:459Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell) (the skill's own vendor host; quoted — discussed, not commanded)1. Install soma CLI (`curl -fsSL https://sup.soma.org | bash && sup install soma`)
vendor-hostquoted
Files scanned: 9. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 6474 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
Process rating: all ten parameters 55/100
- 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
- 30Running it twice. 45 mutating operations with no state check
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 6474 tokens
- 100Steps. 54 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 2 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 11 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- high The skill tells the model to perform an irreversible action with no human approval
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
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 8 example trigger phrases
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 656: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 39 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 54 items
- +4Has examples (25 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (7 of 7)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 88.