BB mkts-market-data
Retrieve market data and, with explicit user confirmation, manage portfolio, journal, and watchlist records through mkts.io for stocks, crypto, ETFs, commodities, and forex. Use for quotes, research, screening, news, and user-requested account workflows; never transmit private content or mutate records without informed consent.
As a process B 69/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
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.
How to improve
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- 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 · 6
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 6
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medium Exfiltration
exfil-send-secrets-to-urlSKILL.md:22Instruction to send secrets/history to an external endpoint (describes API authentication (bearer / header / HTTPS); the skill's own vendor host)- Keep `MKTS_API_KEY` private. Use it only from an already configured environment variable; never print it, place it in a URL/body, search files or environment variables to discover credentials, or se
API authvendor-host -
low Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:42Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $MKTS_API_KEY" https://mkts.io/api/v1/market
vendor-host -
low Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:49Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $MKTS_API_KEY" "https://mkts.io/api/v1/assets"
vendor-host -
low Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:52Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $MKTS_API_KEY" "https://mkts.io/api/v1/assets?type=stock&limit=20"
vendor-host -
low Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:55Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $MKTS_API_KEY" "https://mkts.io/api/v1/assets?type=stock§or=…"
vendor-host -
low Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:58Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $MKTS_API_KEY" "https://mkts.io/api/v1/assets?search=apple"
vendor-host
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 7635 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
Process rating: all ten parameters 69/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 14 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 7635 tokens
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 39 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 2 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 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)
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 329: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 35 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 39 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (30 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 77.