AB searxng
Search the web using SearXNG meta-search engine. Use when the user wants to search the web, find current information, look up facts, news, or any query that requires web search capabilities. Integrates with SearXNG instances to provide search results across multiple engines. Use for queries like "search for X", "look up Y", "find information about Z", or when real-time web data is needed.
As a process B 66/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: consistency, running it twice, 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 skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
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 · 2
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 2
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeSETUP.md:190Privilege escalation / world-writable permissionssudo chown searxng:searxng /opt/searxng
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processSETUP.md:239Starts a background / autostarted processsudo systemctl enable searxng
Files scanned: 5. 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 66/100
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (searxng) differs from the folder (web-search-searxng)
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 100Steps. 22 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1152 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- -2localhost URLs: will not work for another user
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 3 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 391: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 22 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 22 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (11 code blocks)
- +3All 1 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 93.