AC hn-podcast-archive
Build and operate an automated archive workflow for the Hacker News podcast/feed: detect new episodes from RSS, download audio, transcribe locally with Whisper, generate markdown archives with metadata, and keep an index/history for repeatable ingestion. Use when setting up or maintaining a podcast transcription/archive pipeline, especially for RSS-based podcasts and local file archives.
As a process C 63/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
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: 7. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
frontmatter-yamlSKILL.md: the frontmatter is not valid YAML (YAML parse error: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14: description: Build and operate an automated archive workflow for the Hacker New… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
Process rating: all ten parameters 63/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 60Failures and branches. 2 branches
- 100Steps. 29 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 569 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
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)
- -31 of 2 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 390: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 29 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 2)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 78.