AB first-principles
Deep first-principles analysis of any topic, decision, strategy, or assumption. Strips inherited thinking, identifies what is provably true, and rebuilds from ground truth. Use when user asks for first principles analysis, wants to challenge assumptions, says "analyze this from scratch", "break this down", "what's really true here", or triggers with /firstprinciples. Also useful for strategic decisions, investment theses, product strategy, career moves, or any situation where conventional wisdom may be wrong.
As a process B 66/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, consistency, running it twice
The same skill appears in 1 more place: ClawHub
How to improve
- 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 · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 66/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (first-principles) differs from the folder (davinci-first-principles)
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 60Failures and branches. 2 branches
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 33 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1176 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 3 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 514: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 11 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 33 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 88.