CD tao-setup
One-time session setup and orchestration map for the TAO skill bank. Run this first when the TAO skills were installed individually (e.g. from a public skills catalog) so the session gets the cross-skill discovery flow, credential checks, and host preflight that the bundled plugin hook would otherwise inject automatically. Trigger phrases include "set up TAO skills", "TAO session setup", "prepare TAO environment", "TAO getting started".
One-time session setup and orchestration map for the TAO skill bank.
As a process D 46/100 · Unfinished process — References files that are not bundled: references/skill_info.yaml, scripts/tao_job_record.py, scripts/nccl_allreduce_probe.py
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 asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
How to improve
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- 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 · 3
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 3
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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Read Bash
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvSKILL.md:33Reads a .env fileset -a; source /path/to/.env; set +a # omit if already exported
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvSKILL.md:59Reads a .env file (detector / deny-list definition)Load a user-approved env file with `set -a; source /path/to/.env; set +a` in the
detector
Files scanned: 1. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/skill_info.yaml - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/tao_job_record.py - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/nccl_allreduce_probe.py - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/install-codex-agents.sh
Process rating: all ten parameters 46/100
- 0Tools and files. 4 referenced file(s) missing: references/skill_info.yaml, scripts/tao_job_record.py, scripts/nccl_allreduce_probe.py
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 55Failures and branches. 1 branches
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 100Steps. 14 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1608 tokens
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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 4 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 440: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 6 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 14 items
- +4Has examples (2 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 78.