AB ia-refine-prompt
Transforms vague prompts into precise, structured AI instructions. Use when asked to refine, improve, or sharpen a prompt, do prompt engineering, write a system prompt, or make AI instructions more effective.
As a process B 70/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, consistency
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: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
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Process rating: all ten parameters 70/100
- 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
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (ia-refine-prompt) differs from the folder (compound-eng-refine-prompt)
- 70Failures and branches. 6 branches
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 27 steps
- 100Result and completion. Output format and completion criterion are stated
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1676 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- 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)
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 208: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 27 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 86.
External checks
ClawHub: clean
This prompt-refinement skill is coherent and does not show hidden access, execution, or data-collection behavior.
LLM: benign (high) · VirusTotal: · 8 Sept 2026