BC off-peak-compute
Run heavy compute tasks overnight when GPU/cloud capacity is cheapest (spot pricing). Use when you have non-time-sensitive tasks that would benefit from off-peak availability. Tasks execute at 2 AM via cron.
As a process C 52/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
What is at stake
The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.
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
- Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
- 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 · 3
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceSKILL.md:56Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "off-peak-compute"; echo "0 2 * * * \$HOME/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/off-peak-compute.sh") | crontab -
Medium and low: 2
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionSKILL.md:56Mentions editing / listing crontab(crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "off-peak-compute"; echo "0 2 * * * \$HOME/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/off-peak-compute.sh") | crontab -
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionSKILL.md:59Mentions editing / listing crontabcrontab -l | grep off-peak
Files scanned: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
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Process rating: all ten parameters 52/100
- 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. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 85Steps. 22 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1313 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 207: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 10 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 22 items
- +4Has examples (5 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 87.