BC secure-skill
Scan skills in a project directory for security issues and generate a markdown table report, then install skills from a local registry. Combines static analysis of code and markdown files with supply chain checks. Use when auditing a skills directory, generating a security summary table, or installing skills from a local registry.
Scan skills in a project directory for security issues and generate a markdown table report, then install skills from a local registry.
As a process C 61/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, failures and branches
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The text contains phrases like "ignore previous instructions" or "you are now…". That is an attempt to hijack the agent: it may break your rules, the system limits or company policy.
An honest skill does not need them: state the role and the rules directly without overriding other instructions. Otherwise catalog scanners and corporate filters will block the listing.
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 · 4
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 4
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medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previousscripts/patterns.json:66Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (detector / deny-list definition){"regex": "ignore\\s+(all\\s+)?previous\\s+instructions", "risk": "Attempts to override system prompt", "fix": "Remove this phrase"},detector -
medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previousscripts/patterns.json:67Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (detector / deny-list definition){"regex": "ignore\\s+(all\\s+)?prior\\s+instructions", "risk": "Attempts to override system prompt", "fix": "Remove this phrase"},detector -
medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previousscripts/patterns.json:68Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (detector / deny-list definition){"regex": "disregard\\s+(all\\s+)?(previous|prior|above)", "risk": "Disregard existing instructions", "fix": "Remove this directive"},detector -
medium Instruction override
en-fake-system-promptscripts/patterns.json:69Fake system prompt injected into content (detector / deny-list definition){"regex": "new\\s+system\\s+prompt", "risk": "Injects a replacement system prompt", "fix": "Remove system prompt override"},detector
Files scanned: 5. 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 61/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 8 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 714 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
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 332: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 8 items
- +4Has examples (7 code blocks)
- +3All 2 scripts are documented
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 88.