AC english-listening-coach
An interactive English listening and dictation coach that guides learners through structured practice sessions using real content from listenaminute.com, breakingnewsenglish.com, dailydictation.com, and englishclub.com. Use this skill whenever someone asks to practice English listening, do a dictation exercise, improve their English comprehension, practice with a transcript, study English from a text or audio source, or says things like "give me an English lesson", "let's do dictation", "help me practice listening", "I want to study English today", or "quiz me on English". This skill runs a full interactive session: fetch a real passage, guide dictation, check answers, give feedback, teach vocabulary, and offer follow-up exercises. Trigger even for casual requests like "let's do some English practice" or "give me something to listen to in English".
As a process C 59/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
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: 4. 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: An interactive English listening and dictation coach that guides l… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
Process rating: all ten parameters 59/100
- 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. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Steps. 51 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 3 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 3136 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 13 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 860: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 7 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 23 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 51 items
- +4Has examples (2 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 80.