AC exa-research-papers
Find academic papers, studies, and research on any topic using Exa's research paper category search. Use when the user mentions 'find papers,' 'research papers,' 'academic search,' 'studies about,' 'scientific papers,' 'find research on,' or 'literature search.' Covers finding and synthesizing academic research. NOT for general web search or company research. For company research, see exa-company-research. For market/industry research, see market-research.
As a process C 63/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, consistency, progress reporting
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 · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 63/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (exa-research-papers) differs from the folder (abm-exa-research-papers)
- 55Failures and branches. 1 branches
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 85Steps. 20 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 733 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 460: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 11 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 20 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (5 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 91.