AC youtube-thumbnail
Design, critique, and test YouTube video thumbnails and preview cards for stronger, better-qualified clicks. Use when developing thumbnail concepts, pairing a thumbnail with a title, directing image creation, checking small-screen legibility, preparing a YouTube experiment, or diagnosing thumbnail performance. Do not use for general video editing, channel strategy, or artwork for another platform.
Design, critique, and test YouTube video thumbnails and preview cards for stronger, better-qualified clicks.
As a process C 60/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
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: 10. 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 60/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 30Running it twice. 4 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 85Steps. 20 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1549 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- 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
- -31 of 2 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 400: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 6 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 20 items
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (3 of 3)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 90.