AB very-long-text-summarization
Summarizes very long texts (books, handbooks, biographies, codebases) using hierarchical multi-pass extraction with cheap model armies. Produces structured knowledge maps, not just summaries. Use when processing 50+ page documents, professional handbooks, career biographies, or any text too large for a single context window. Activate on "summarize book", "summarize handbook", "long document", "extract knowledge", "distill text", "professional biography". NOT for short text summarization (<10 pages), real-time chat summarization, or code documentation (use technical-writer).
Summarizes very long texts (books, handbooks, biographies, codebases) using hierarchical multi-pass extraction with cheap model armies.
As a process B 68/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, running it twice, progress reporting
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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash Grep Glob
Files scanned: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 68/100
- 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
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100Steps. 9 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1916 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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 6 example trigger phrases
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 583: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 20 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 9 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (4 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 96.