BC rate-limit-guard
Prevent 429 retry loops and wasted tokens. Use before expensive API calls or after hitting rate limits. Enforces preflight checks, backoff, and context shrinking.
Prevent 429 retry loops and wasted tokens.
As a process C 64/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
Integrationtype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text
How to improve
For the model run — optional
- 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 64/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 8 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 110 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)
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 162: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 5 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 8 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 83.
External checks
ClawHub: clean
This is a small guidance-only skill for avoiding wasteful rate-limit retries, with no executable code or hidden access.
LLM: benign (high) · VirusTotal: · 16 Sept 2026