BB ai_daily_digest
Fetches RSS feeds from 92 top Hacker News blogs (curated by Karpathy) plus 3 Chinese tech media (36氪, 少数派, InfoQ中文), uses AI to score and filter articles, and generates a daily digest in Markdown with Chinese-translated titles, category grouping, trend highlights, and visual statistics. Use when user mentions 'daily digest', 'RSS digest', 'blog digest', 'AI blogs', 'tech news summary', or asks to run /digest. Do NOT use for non-RSS content, non-tech topics, or real-time news APIs.
As a process B 74/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: result and completion, consistency, progress reporting
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 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.
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
- 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 Exfiltration
net-credential-usescripts/digest.ts:375Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)const response = await fetch(`${GEMINI_API_URL}?key=${apiKey}`, { -
medium Exfiltration
net-redirectable-api-keyscripts/digest.ts:1055Helper sends the API key to a host configured by an environment variable — the key can be redirected to another serverAPI key + configurable base URL from environment
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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Bash Read Write AskUserQuestion
Files scanned: 4. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
name-formatname should be kebab-case (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens) - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "keywords"
Process rating: all ten parameters 74/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (ai_daily_digest) differs from the folder (daily-digest-ai)
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 85Steps. 25 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Failures and branches. 3 branches, has a failure section
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1765 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
- low 10 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
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 485: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 23 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 25 items
- +4Has examples (6 code blocks)
- +3All 1 scripts are documented
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 86.