AC programming-principles
Apply distilled coding principles from 14 classic software books to code review, refactoring, design, and implementation decisions. Do not use for language- or framework-specific tutorials, tool manuals, or tasks already governed by a project's established conventions.
Apply distilled coding principles from 14 classic software books to code review, refactoring, design, and implementation decisions.
As a process C 57/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
How to improve
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 33. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 22, 207, 209, 291, 321): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 57/100
- 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. 4 mutating operations with no state check
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4609 tokens
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 131 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low No test case covers injection arriving through data
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
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 269: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 28 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 131 items
- +4Has examples (2 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (31 of 31)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 93.