BC cavepony
Pony-themed token compression for AI agents with bidirectional token mapping. Talk less, think big, make it equine, AND reverse it. Use when the user wants concise responses, reduced token usage, or pony-flavored communication. Modes: lite, full, ultra, pony, canterlot. Includes compress(), expand(), and CLI tool.
Pony-themed token compression for AI agents with bidirectional token mapping.
As a process C 57/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
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 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.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
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.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
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.
- 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 · 2
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shellREADME.md:167Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell)bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cavepony/cavepony/main/hooks/install.sh)
Medium and low: 1
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medium Broad scope
meta-agent-memory-dumpmemory/example.mdAgent memory / workspace files bundled with the skill (1) — likely a workspace dump with personal data or tokensmemory/example.md
Files scanned: 13. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
frontmatter-yamlSKILL.md: the frontmatter is not valid YAML (YAML parse error: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14: description: Pony-themed token compression for AI agents with bidirectional tok… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
Process rating: all ten parameters 57/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 9 mutating operations with no state check
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 50 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1048 tokens
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 315: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 50 items
- +4Has examples (3 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 74.