AC vhs-terminal-recorder
This skill should be used when the user names Charmbracelet VHS, asks to use the `vhs` CLI, wants a terminal recording, terminal GIF, terminal MP4/WebM, `.tape` file, scripted terminal demo, or a reproducible command-line screencast. Do NOT use for generic browser recording, full desktop screen capture, or unscripted secret-bearing interactive sessions.
This skill should be used when the user names Charmbracelet VHS, asks to use the vhs CLI, wants a terminal recording, terminal GIF, terminal MP4/WebM, .tape…
As a process C 50/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
How to improve
- For Hermes the description must be one sentence under 60 characters; move the conditions to a "When to Use" section.
- 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: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-long-hermesdescription is 355 chars; the Hermes authoring standard requires ≤ 60 (one sentence, ending with a period)
Process rating: all ten parameters 50/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 11 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Consistency. The Hermes dialect needs category and tags
- 100Steps. 26 steps
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1810 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low The response is described with custom markup (5 tags): a typed call is more reliable
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
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 355: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 26 items
- +4Has examples (9 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 83.