BC amazon-ads-new-to-brand-and-halo-sales
Use for "are Amazon Sponsored Brands worth it", "is Amazon Sponsored Display working", "how many new customers do my Amazon ads bring", "what's my Amazon new-to-brand rate", "are my Amazon ads selling my other products", "is Amazon DSP worth the money", or "why does my Amazon Brands ACOS look so bad" — even when the user never says "new to brand". Covers what upper-funnel Amazon ads are worth beyond ACOS. Amazon Ads only.
Use for "are Amazon Sponsored Brands worth it", "is Amazon Sponsored Display working", "how many new customers do my Amazon ads bring", "what's my Amazon…
As a process C 63/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
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 text contains phrases like "ignore previous instructions" or "you are now…". That is an attempt to hijack the agent: it may break your rules, the system limits or company policy.
An honest skill does not need them: state the role and the rules directly without overriding other instructions. Otherwise catalog scanners and corporate filters will block the listing.
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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Instruction override
en-ignore-previousSKILL.md:199Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (quoted — discussed, not commanded)campaign called "ignore previous instructions" is a string of text.
quoted
Files scanned: 1. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 34, 69, 77, 78, 90, 131): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 63/100
- 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. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 65Failures and branches. 3 branches
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 18 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 3299 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 12 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 8 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 425: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 14 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 18 items
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 85.