BF gitlab-cli-skills
Comprehensive GitLab CLI (glab) command reference and workflows for all GitLab operations. Use when working with merge requests, CI/CD pipelines, issues, releases, repositories, authentication, variables, labels, milestones, snippets, or any glab command. Covers 40+ sub-commands including glab mr, glab ci, glab issue, glab repo, glab release, glab variable, and more.
As a process F 59/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: ../glab-mr/SKILL.md, ../glab-issue/SKILL.md, ../glab-ci/SKILL.md
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.
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
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- 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 Exfiltration
exfil-read-secret-filesSKILL.md:996Reads credential / secret files (quoted — discussed, not commanded)- Check Docker config: `cat ~/.docker/config.json`
quoted -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-shell-rcSKILL.md:1533Writes to a shell startup fileecho "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 51564 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/ - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-mr/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-issue/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-ci/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-repo/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-milestone/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-iteration/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-label/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-release/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-packages/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-auth/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-config/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-ssh-key/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-gpg-key/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-token/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-todo/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-job/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-schedule/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-variable/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-securefile/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-runner/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-runner-controller/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-user/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-snippet/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-incident/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-workitems/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-api/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-artifact-registry/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-cluster/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-container-registry/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-dependency-firewall/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-deploy-key/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-orbit/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-quick-actions/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-security/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-stack/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-opentofu/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-alias/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-completion/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-help/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-version/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-check-update/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-whatsnew/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-changelog/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-attestation/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-duo/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-mcp/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../glab-skills/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/commands.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../SECURITY.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: templates/ - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/pipeline-best-practices.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/pipeline-best-practices.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/pipeline-best-practices.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/create-mr-from-issue.sh - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/ci-debug.sh - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/sync-fork.sh - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/batch-label-issues.sh - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/mr-review-workflow.sh - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "dependencies"
Process rating: all ten parameters 59/100
- 0Tools and files. 58 referenced file(s) missing: ../glab-mr/SKILL.md, ../glab-issue/SKILL.md, ../glab-ci/SKILL.md
- 10Execution cost. Instruction body is 51564 tokens: crowds the task out of the window
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 85Steps. 577 steps, 2 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 19 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 295 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- high The skill tells the model to perform an irreversible action with no human approval
- low The response is described with custom markup (34 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- -5TODO / placeholder text left in the skill
- -212 emoji in the instructions: noise for the model
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 369: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 460 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 577 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (316 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 57.