DC placecall
The phone is your last API. Give your agent a voice to call any US business and take action in the real world. PlaceCall handles reservations, inquiries, and quotes - navigating IVRs, holds, and transfers. You get a verified outcome + full transcript. First 250 calls free. Pay only for outcomes.
The phone is your last API.
As a process C 53/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, execution cost
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.
How to improve
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- For Hermes the description must be one sentence under 60 characters; move the conditions to a "When to Use" section.
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- 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 · 5
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 5
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:190Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" https://api.voygr.tech/users/me
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:462Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)OUT=$(curl -s --max-time 20 -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" \
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:498Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" https://api.voygr.tech/calls/$ID
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:601Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" https://api.voygr.tech/v1/usage
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low Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:251Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)`curl -s "https://api.voygr.tech/calls?limit=20" -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY"`.
quoted
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-long-hermesdescription is 296 chars; the Hermes authoring standard requires ≤ 60 (one sentence, ending with a period) - warning
description-no-whenneither description nor a "## When to Use" section says when to use the skill - warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 9662 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/ - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "credential_destinations" - note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 455, 516): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 53/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 40Execution cost. Instruction body is 9662 tokens: crowds the task out of the window
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Consistency. The Hermes dialect needs category and tags
- 85Steps. 103 steps, 3 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 4 branches, has a failure section
- 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 19 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
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 296: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 29 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 103 items
- +4Has examples (12 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 56.