AC tax-prep-8867-due-diligence
Activate when: preparing any return claiming EITC, CTC/ACTC/ODC, AOTC, or Head-of-Household status; onboarding a paid-preparer workflow; a reviewer says 'did we document due diligence?', 'are we 8867-covered?', 'EITC audit risk.'. Do NOT activate when: no refundable credit / HOH is claimed; the return is self-prepared with no paid preparer; the question is purely tax-law calculation (use a calc tool, not this). More: deciqai.com/c/tax-prep-8867-due-diligence
Activate when: preparing any return claiming EITC, CTC/ACTC/ODC, AOTC, or Head-of-Household status; onboarding a paid-preparer workflow; a reviewer says 'did…
As a process C 53/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
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 53/100
- 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
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 16 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 866 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
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
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 462: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 16 items
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 80.