BC brave-rotator
Brave Search API with automatic key rotation across multiple API keys to maximize free tier limits (2000 req/month per key). Use when performing web, news, or image searches via Brave Search API, especially when multiple API keys are available and you want to avoid rate limits. Triggers on web search requests, news lookups, image searches, any task requiring Brave Search API calls with key rotation or fallback.
As a process C 60/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, consistency
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 instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".
If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.
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 · 1
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high Exfiltration
intent-browser-credential-storeskill-card.md:37Accesses a browser credential / cookie store**Other Properties Related to Output:** [Search results are formatted from Brave web, news, or image API responses; local state tracks per-key usage and cooldowns.] <br>
Files scanned: 4. 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 60/100
- 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
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (brave-rotator) differs from the folder (openclaw-skill-brave-rotator)
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 7 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 440 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
- +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 414: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 7 items
- +4Has examples (5 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
- +3All 1 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 91.