CD Job Execution Monitor
Monitor scheduled jobs (cron) and alert when they fail or miss their schedule.
Monitor scheduled jobs (cron) and alert when they fail or miss their schedule.
As a process D 49/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
What is at stake
The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.
The skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
How to improve
- Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
- 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 · 7
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencescripts/install.sh:99Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "$CRON_LINE") | crontab -
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceSKILL.md:66Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)crontab -l | sed '/job-execution-monitor\/scripts\/healthcheck\.sh/d' | crontab -
Medium and low: 5
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install.sh:96Mentions editing / listing crontabif crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -qF "$HEALTHCHECK_SCRIPT"; then
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install.sh:99Mentions editing / listing crontab(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "$CRON_LINE") | crontab -
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install.sh:105Mentions editing / listing crontab (string literal in code, not executed)echo " crontab -l # view"
code literal -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionscripts/install.sh:106Mentions editing / listing crontab (string literal in code, not executed)echo " crontab -e # edit"
code literal -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionSKILL.md:66Mentions editing / listing crontabcrontab -l | sed '/job-execution-monitor\/scripts\/healthcheck\.sh/d' | crontab -
Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
name-formatname should be kebab-case (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens)
Process rating: all ten parameters 49/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (Job Execution Monitor) differs from the folder (job-execution-monitor)
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Steps. 42 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1394 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- 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
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 78: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -5TODO / placeholder text left in the skill
- -32 of 2 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 16 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 42 items
- +4Has examples (11 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 68.