DD meili-memory
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As a process D 49/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
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.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".
If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.
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.
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- 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 · 7
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceinstall.sh:66Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "meili-memory"; echo "0 * * * * cd ${SKILL_DIR} && bash scripts/indexer.sh >> /tmp/meili-indexer.log 2>&1") | crontab -
Medium and low: 6
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shellinstall.sh:9Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh
vendor-host -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeinstall.sh:10Privilege escalation / world-writable permissionssudo mv ./meilisearch /usr/local/bin/
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeinstall.sh:39Privilege escalation / world-writable permissionssudo cp /tmp/meilisearch.service /etc/systemd/system/meilisearch.service
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-usescripts/indexer.sh:356Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)STATS=$(curl -s "${MEILI_HOST}/indexes/${TIER}/stats" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${MEILI_KEY}" 2>/dev/null) -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processinstall.sh:41Starts a background / autostarted processsudo systemctl enable meilisearch
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentioninstall.sh:66Mentions editing / listing crontab(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "meili-memory"; echo "0 * * * * cd ${SKILL_DIR} && bash scripts/indexer.sh >> /tmp/meili-indexer.log 2>&1") | crontab -
Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
Process rating: all ten parameters 49/100
- 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
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 85Steps. 19 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 826 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 10 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)
- +3Description length 81: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -2localhost URLs: will not work for another user
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 11 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 19 items
- +4Has examples (6 code blocks)
- +3All 3 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 70.