BC kickstart
The essential first skill for every OpenClaw agent. Installs battle-tested workspace files, memory architecture, expert personas, sub-agent templates, heartbeat patterns, and automation scaffolding. Use when setting up a new OpenClaw instance, optimising an existing workspace, improving agent memory/context management, spawning better sub-agents, or building your first automations. Covers: workspace setup, memory systems, context management, sub-agent orchestration, cron/heartbeat patterns, API integrations checklist, and progressive skill building.
As a process C 58/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
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 skill asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Broad scope
meta-agent-memory-dumpassets/HEARTBEAT.mdAgent memory / workspace files bundled with the skill (2) — likely a workspace dump with personal data or tokensassets/HEARTBEAT.md, assets/SOUL.md
Files scanned: 15. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
frontmatter-yamlSKILL.md: the frontmatter is not valid YAML (YAML parse error: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14: description: The essential first skill for every OpenClaw agent. Installs battl… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
Process rating: all ten parameters 58/100
- 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
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 52 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1525 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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 555: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 15 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 52 items
- +4Has examples (2 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (9 of 9)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 78.