BC coding-agent
Delegate coding tasks to Codex, Claude Code, or Pi agents via background process. Use when: (1) building/creating new features or apps, (2) reviewing PRs (spawn in temp dir), (3) refactoring large codebases, (4) iterative coding that needs file exploration. NOT for: simple one-liner fixes (just edit), reading code (use read tool), or any work in ~/clawd workspace (never spawn agents here). Requires a bash tool that supports pty:true.
As a process C 54/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, consistency
The same skill appears in 2 more places: ClawHub, ClawHub
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 files contain someone else's key or token. If it is live, your agent will call third-party services under a stranger's identity; if it was revoked, the skill's scripts simply fail. Such a key often arrives with the author's whole workspace, personal data included.
The key is visible to everyone who downloaded the skill and has likely been copied by catalog-scanning bots already. Revoke it now, check bills and access logs, then reissue.
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 · 4
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 4
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medium Secrets in code
secret-labelled-tokenindex.js:10Labelled token / key literal (vendor format unknown — verify it is not a live credential)this.apiKey = "AIza…jk0";
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medium Secrets in code
secret-google-keyindex.js:10Google API key (quoted — discussed, not commanded)this.apiKey = "AIza…jk0";
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenindex.js:10High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)this.apiKey = "AIza…jk0";
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low Secrets in code
secret-password-literalindex.js:10Hard-coded password / key literal (may be an example)this.apiKey = "AIza…jk0";
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 54/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (coding-agent) differs from the folder (coding-agent-backup)
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 65Failures and branches. 3 branches
- 100Steps. 23 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2477 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- low 12 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
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 437: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 19 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 23 items
- +4Has examples (12 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 88.