BB api-integration
Integrate third-party APIs with auth, retries, timeouts, and logging.
As a process B 65/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: when it triggers, consistency
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 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
- 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 · 2
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 2
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shellapi-integration.md:43Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)- Avoid `curl | sh` or ad-hoc install scripts as part of integration.
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shellSKILL.md:53Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)- Avoid `curl | sh` or ad-hoc install scripts as part of integration.
quoted
Files scanned: 5. 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 65/100
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (api-integration) differs from the folder (api-integration-redhat)
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 100Steps. 29 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 448 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
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)
- +3Description length 69: 120–800 characters recommended
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 29 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (0 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 84.