AB Vincent - Brave Search for agents
Web and news search powered by Brave Search. Use this skill when users want to search the web, find news articles, or look up current information. Pay-per-call via Vincent credit system. Triggers on "search the web", "web search", "brave search", "search news", "find information", "look up", "current events".
Web and news search powered by Brave Search.
As a process B 68/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, consistency
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 · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 1. 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) - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "homepage" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "source"
Process rating: all ten parameters 68/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (Vincent - Brave Search for agents) differs from the folder (vincent-brave-search)
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 85Steps. 17 steps, 2 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1751 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
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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 7 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 310: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 14 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 17 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (7 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 86.