AC self-improving-engineering
Captures architecture decisions, code quality issues, build/deploy failures, dependency problems, performance regressions, tech debt accumulation, and test gaps for continuous engineering improvement. Use when: (1) A build or deployment fails, (2) An architecture violation is discovered, (3) A test gap or flaky test is found, (4) A dependency CVE or breaking change surfaces, (5) A performance regression is detected, (6) Code review reveals design flaws, (7) Tech debt accumulates past a threshold.
As a process C 55/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
How to improve
- 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 · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 15. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 6396 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
Process rating: all ten parameters 55/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 33 mutating operations with no state check
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, node) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 6396 tokens
- 85Steps. 140 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 4 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- low 20 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
- +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 501: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 52 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 140 items
- +4Has examples (19 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 3)
- +3All 3 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 81.