AC scholar-report
Generate AI-powered academic research reports via the Scholar API (scholar.x49.ai). Creates comprehensive literature review reports with inline citations, paper evidence, and downloadable Markdown. Use when the user wants a research report, literature review, academic survey, state-of-the-art summary, or systematic overview of a topic. Triggers when the user mentions generating a report, reviewing literature, surveying a field, summarizing research trends, or asks complex questions that benefit from a synthesized academic report.
As a process C 60/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, consistency
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 skill asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
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 · 2
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 2
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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Bash
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenSKILL.md:35High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)2. Built-in free key: `psk_…CO4`
quoted
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "effort"
Process rating: all ten parameters 60/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 11 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (scholar-report) differs from the folder (scholar-report-x49)
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 85Steps. 40 steps, 2 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2480 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
- +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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 535: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 17 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 40 items
- +4Has examples (9 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 83.