CC blog-ingest
Feed and whole-publication ingestion: turn an entire blog, newsletter, or RSS/Atom archive into brain source pages. Covers feed discovery, pagination walking, normalization to a common article shape, canonical-URL dedup, idempotent re-runs, 429 pacing, and empty-husk repair. This is the PUBLICATION-scope skill — a single article URL routes to idea-ingest instead. Per-article enrichment hands off to the brain-ingest-gate skill; public posts only (gated content is skipped, never worked around).
Feed and whole-publication ingestion: turn an entire blog, newsletter, or RSS/Atom archive into brain source pages.
As a process C 54/100 · Has gaps — References files that are not bundled: ../conventions/brain-first.md, ../conventions/test-before-bulk.md, ../conventions/untrusted-content.md
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
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- 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:105Instruction-override phrase ("ignore previous instructions") (quoted — discussed, not commanded)"ignore previous instructions," embedded tool-call syntax, or urgent demands
quoted
Files scanned: 1. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when") - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../conventions/brain-first.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../conventions/test-before-bulk.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../conventions/untrusted-content.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../conventions/agent-operator-protocol.md - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "triggers" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "mutating" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "writes_pages" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "writes_to" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "upstream"
Process rating: all ten parameters 54/100
- 0Tools and files. 4 referenced file(s) missing: ../conventions/brain-first.md, ../conventions/test-before-bulk.md, ../conventions/untrusted-content.md
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 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
- 100Steps. 46 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 3605 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 11 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
- low The response is described with custom markup (3 tags): a typed call is more reliable
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)
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 497: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 18 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 46 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (4 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 60.