FC revenium
MANDATORY guardrail check BEFORE EVERY OPERATION — read guardrail-status.json first, always, no exceptions. Enforces Revenium guardrails-native budget rules, warns on threshold exceedance, halts autonomous agents on guardrail block, and meters usage into Revenium.
As a process C 54/100 · Has gaps — 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.
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.
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- 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 · 27
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/install-cron.sh:98Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry){ [[ -n "${EXISTING}" ]] && printf '%s\n' "${EXISTING}"; printf '%s\n' "${CRON_LINE}"; } | crontab - -
high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/install-nemoclaw-cron.sh:168Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry){ [[ -n "${EXISTING}" ]] && printf '%s\n' "${EXISTING}"; printf '%s\n' "${CRON_LINE}"; } | crontab - -
high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/uninstall-nemoclaw-cron.sh:52Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)printf '%s\n' "${REMAINING}" | crontab - -
high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/uninstall-nemoclaw-cron.sh:54Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)echo "" | crontab -
Medium and low: 23
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shelldocs/nemoclaw-setup.md:11Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell) (documentation of a security skill)curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh | bash
security skill -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/install-cron.sh:97Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (string literal in code, not executed)EXISTING="$(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "revenium-metering" || true)"
code literal -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/install-nemoclaw-cron.sh:167Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (string literal in code, not executed)EXISTING="$(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -vF "${CRON_COMMENT}" || true)"code literal -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/uninstall-cron.sh:13Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (detector / deny-list definition)crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "revenium-metering" | crontab -
detector -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/uninstall-nemoclaw-cron.sh:50Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (string literal in code, not executed)REMAINING="$(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -vF "${CRON_MARKER}" || true)"code literal -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin-nemoclaw/package-lock.json:173High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…bgT+a6FmCUdOW+HaIO…nxA==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin-nemoclaw/package-lock.json:189High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…Lcx+hqB0…GbW+m++MqA6r7eOzq/8FLx…38h/SVTk2qzw==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin-nemoclaw/package-lock.json:228High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…xzE+0m1V…42A==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin-nemoclaw/package-lock.json:244High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…cKX+fr+AOC+o8K7ZvS+wqX0…S4w==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin-nemoclaw/package-lock.json:309High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…OIa++1mxe…PB1/GGM5PL549g==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin/package-lock.json:22High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…YJg+xp+LPXV…GQe/ylDS…Jxg==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin/package-lock.json:184High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…bgT+a6FmCUdOW+HaIO…nxA==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin/package-lock.json:200High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…Lcx+hqB0…GbW+m++MqA6r7eOzq/8FLx…38h/SVTk2qzw==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin/package-lock.json:239High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…xzE+0m1V…42A==",
detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenplugin/package-lock.json:255High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (detector / deny-list definition)"integrity": "sha5…cKX+fr+AOC+o8K7ZvS+wqX0…S4w==",
detector -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install-cron.sh:94Mentions editing / listing crontabif crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -q "revenium-metering"; then
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install-cron.sh:97Mentions editing / listing crontab (string literal in code, not executed)EXISTING="$(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "revenium-metering" || true)"
code literal -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install-nemoclaw-cron.sh:164Mentions editing / listing crontabif crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -qF "${CRON_COMMENT}"; then -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install-nemoclaw-cron.sh:167Mentions editing / listing crontab (string literal in code, not executed)EXISTING="$(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -vF "${CRON_COMMENT}" || true)"code literal -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/uninstall-cron.sh:8Mentions editing / listing crontabif ! crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -q "revenium-metering"; then
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/uninstall-cron.sh:13Mentions editing / listing crontabcrontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "revenium-metering" | crontab -
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/uninstall-nemoclaw-cron.sh:39Mentions editing / listing crontabif ! crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -qF "${CRON_MARKER}"; then -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/uninstall-nemoclaw-cron.sh:50Mentions editing / listing crontab (string literal in code, not executed)REMAINING="$(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -vF "${CRON_MARKER}" || true)"code literal
Files scanned: 57. 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") - warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 6001 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
Process rating: all ten parameters 54/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, write, web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 6001 tokens
- 85Steps. 75 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 15 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low The response is described with custom markup (4 tags): a typed call is more reliable
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
- -312 of 20 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 264: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 22 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 75 items
- +4Has examples (11 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 4)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 63.