BB memorist_agent
Memorist Agent — helps you capture your parents' and family members' life stories through adaptive interviews via WhatsApp, WeChat, or direct conversation. Organizes stories into memoir chapters. Local-first, privacy-protected. Bilingual: English + Chinese (普通话). Commands: /memorist_agent setup, interview, stories, compile, export, share.
As a process B 65/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, 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
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- 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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Broad scope
meta-agent-memory-dumptemplates/memorist/HEARTBEAT.mdAgent memory / workspace files bundled with the skill (6) — likely a workspace dump with personal data or tokenstemplates/memorist/HEARTBEAT.md, templates/memorist/SOUL.md, templates/memorist/USER.md, templates/memorist-wecom/HEARTBEAT.md, templates/memorist-wecom/SOUL.md
Files scanned: 28. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
name-formatname should be kebab-case (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens) - warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
Process rating: all ten parameters 65/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (memorist_agent) differs from the folder (memorist-agent)
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4761 tokens
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100Steps. 56 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 6 branches, has a failure section
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 16 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
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 340: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 18 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 56 items
- +4Has examples (11 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (5 of 5)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 72.