AA PriceTide
Purchase-timing decision skill for mainland China shopping that judges whether a current price is a short-term low, a fair buy, a wait candidate, or not worth chasing at all by combining current payable price, recent price pattern, promotion rhythm, urgency, and the downside of waiting.
As a process A 82/100 · Runs to the end — weak spots: running it twice
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: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
name-formatname should be kebab-case (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens) - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "slug"
Process rating: all ten parameters 82/100
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 70Failures and branches. 6 branches
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 189 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2519 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 16 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- high The skill tells the model to perform an irreversible action with no human approval
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
- -31 of 1 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 287: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 27 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 189 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 74.
External checks
ClawHub: clean
PriceTide's declared purpose (timing advice for Chinese e‑commerce) matches its instructions and artifacts; it requests no credentials, has no install downloads, and contains only a harmless publish helper script.
LLM: benign (high) · VirusTotal: benign · 4 Apr 2026