AC english-reading-coach
An interactive English reading skills coach that teaches and drills the seven core reading strategies — skimming, scanning, reading for gist, inference, prediction, main idea identification, and intensive reading — using real texts fetched from trusted ESL sources. Use this skill whenever someone wants to improve their English reading, practice comprehension, work on a specific reading strategy, prepare for IELTS/TOEFL reading, understand a difficult text, build vocabulary from context, or says things like "help me read better in English", "I want to practice reading comprehension", "let's do a reading lesson", "teach me how to skim", "I don't understand this text", or "I want to read faster". Runs full interactive sessions: select a passage at the right level, teach the target strategy, guide practice, give feedback, build vocabulary, and close with a challenge. Trigger even for casual requests like "give me something to read in English" or "let's practice reading today".
As a process C 58/100 · 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: 5. 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 reading skills coach that teaches and drill… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
Process rating: all ten parameters 58/100
- 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
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4409 tokens
- 100Steps. 58 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 4 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 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 987: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 8 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 23 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 58 items
- +4Has examples (2 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 2)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 80.