BC namecheap-dns
Safe DNS record management for Namecheap domains. Fetch, add, remove, backup, and restore DNS records with automatic safety checks and dry-run mode. Prevents accidental DNS record wipeout via the Namecheap API's destructive setHosts method.
Safe DNS record management for Namecheap domains.
As a process C 50/100 · 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 tells the agent to hide things from you: not to show errors, not to mention actions, to report differently from what was done. You lose the ability to see what the agent really did.
Transparency beats a smooth answer. If the goal is to hide technical noise, ask the agent to "summarise briefly", not to "not mention".
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 · 6
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high Concealment
en-hide-from-userSKILL.md:225Instruction to hide actions from the userSince `setHosts` **replaces all records**, using the API can silently delete these hidden records.
Medium and low: 5
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenpackage-lock.json:20High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…9dM/mwVgvbZJaSNaRk+bshk…Kbz+IoId…W0Q==",
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenpackage-lock.json:50High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…SDq+2kAA…MOe/+5cdoEdg==",
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenpackage-lock.json:85High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…FrF+LTRo…W3g==",
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenpackage-lock.json:94High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…A6j+hAmM…GbS+kf5c…csw==",
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenpackage-lock.json:103High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…5bm+c2gQ…aG5+esrLODihIorn+Pe6F…dXA==",
detector
Files scanned: 6. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "homepage"
Process rating: all ten parameters 50/100
- 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. 11 mutating operations with no state check
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 85Steps. 45 steps, 2 vague phrases
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1949 tokens
- 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
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 240: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 32 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 45 items
- +4Has examples (13 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 87.