BC topic-monitor
Monitor topics of interest and proactively alert when important developments occur. Use when the user wants automated monitoring of specific subjects like product releases, news topics, technology updates, RSS/Atom feeds, or GitHub releases. Supports scheduled web search plus feed polling, boolean topic filters, AI importance scoring with sentiment tracking, smart alerts vs weekly digests, and memory-aware contextual summaries.
Monitor topics of interest and proactively alert when important developments occur.
As a process C 55/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, progress reporting
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 · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 52. 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 55/100
- 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
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 85Steps. 63 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1697 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
- low 13 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -36 of 9 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 431: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 27 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 63 items
- +4Has examples (16 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 82.
In the sandbox The scripts kept to themselves
The skill's scripts were run in a throwaway machine: no network, fake keys in the home directory, a tracer watching. We wrote down what they did. Reaching for the network or for secrets caps the technical grade at C; a quiet run adds no points.
Запущено 12 скриптов, ещё 26 не поместились в лимит; каждому дали двадцать секунд, поддельный домашний каталог с ключами и сеть, в которой ничего нет.
Из них 8 не дошли до работы, и об их поведении мы ничего не узнали.
scripts/config.py | ничего за пределами своей папки |
scripts/digest.py | ничего за пределами своей папки |
scripts/importance_scorer.py | ничего за пределами своей папки |
scripts/manage_topics.py | не запустился: manage_topics.py: error: the following arguments are required: command |
scripts/monitor.py | не запустился: ❌ Config file not found: /work/config.json |
scripts/process_alerts.py | ничего за пределами своей папки |
scripts/quick.py | не запустился: quick.py: error: the following arguments are required: topic |
scripts/setup_cron.py | не запустился: {"error": "Config file not found: /work/config.json\nCopy config.example.json to config.json and customize it."} |
scripts/setup.py | не запустился: ⚠️ Input ended. No changes made. |
scripts/_vendor/sgmllib.py | не запустился: test.html : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'test.html' |
scripts/_vendor/feedparser/api.py | не запустился: ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package |
scripts/_vendor/feedparser/encodings.py | не запустился: ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package |
14 Oct 2026