AB hn-podcast-transcribe
Download, transcribe, and archive Hacker News podcast episodes (e.g. "Hacker News Recap" by Wondercraft). Use when: (1) user wants to transcribe HN podcast episodes, (2) user asks to archive HN podcast content, (3) user wants searchable text from HN audio podcasts, (4) user mentions "HN podcast" + "transcribe" or "archive". Supports incremental processing — only new episodes are downloaded/transcribed on each run. Works with any podcast RSS feed, not just HN.
As a process B 70/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: when it triggers, running it twice, 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: 7. 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 70/100
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 3 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 100Steps. 29 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 890 tokens
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)
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 4 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 463: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 12 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 29 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (7 code blocks)
- +3All 5 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 95.