CC cron-copilot-ops
Install, configure, and operate CronCopilot — a Python-based scheduled task management system for cron jobs, scripts, monitoring, and alerts.
As a process C 59/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
What is at stake
The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.
The skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
How to improve
- Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
- 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 · 5
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceREFERENCE.md:874Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.croncopilot.agent.plist
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceREFERENCE.md:877Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.croncopilot.agent.plist
Medium and low: 3
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceREFERENCE.md:845Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)This creates `~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.croncopilot.agent.plist`:
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processREFERENCE.md:830Starts a background / autostarted processsudo systemctl enable croncopilot
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processREFERENCE.md:1205Starts a background / autostarted processsudo systemctl enable croncopilot
Files scanned: 3. 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 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. 5 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Steps. 17 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2722 tokens
- low 12 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
- +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
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 141: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 31 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 17 items
- +4Has examples (17 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 85.