AC local-dev-setup
Write a local development environment setup guide for a service or project — covering prerequisites, repository setup, environment variables, local service dependencies, database seeding, running the service, running tests, common gotchas, IDE recommendations, and first-contribution checklist. Use when asked to write a dev setup guide, create onboarding documentation for engineers, document local environment setup, or write a getting-started guide for a codebase. Produces a complete setup guide that a new engineer can follow from zero to running tests in under 30 minutes, with a troubleshooting section for the most common setup failures.
Write a local development environment setup guide for a service or project — covering prerequisites, repository setup, environment variables, local service…
As a process C 58/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, failures and branches, progress reporting
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 · 3
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 3
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvSKILL.md:97Reads a .env filecp .env.example .env.local
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvSKILL.md:403Reads a .env file# If not: source .env.local && make test-integration
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvSKILL.md:434Reads a .env filecat .env.local | grep "^[A-Z]" | awk -F= '{print $1}'
Files scanned: 1. 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 58/100
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4345 tokens
- 85Steps. 48 steps, 3 vague phrases
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- low 15 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)
- -2localhost URLs: will not work for another user
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 645: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 34 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 48 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (20 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 85.