BC long-horizon-prompting
This skill should be used when writing, enhancing, or evaluating the launch prompt for a long-running autonomous agent or a parallel multi-agent orchestration attacking a hard problem: pseudo-formal task briefs that define terms and an exact success predicate linguistically, enumerate non-counting outcomes, set persistence rules with explicit stop and return conditions and effort floors, manage a diverse portfolio of parallel approaches with an approach registry and blocked-route bookkeeping, and gate the return on adversarial audit. Route agent topology and coordination protocols to multi-agent-patterns, runtime control surfaces and loop governance to harness-engineering, evaluator and quality-gate construction to evaluation, judge design to advanced-evaluation, and compaction or memory mechanics to context-compression and memory-systems.
This skill should be used when writing, enhancing, or evaluating the launch prompt for a long-running autonomous agent or a parallel multi-agent orchestration…
As a process C 64/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, execution cost, running it twice
How to improve
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- 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: 6. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 8147 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
Process rating: all ten parameters 64/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 13 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Execution cost. Instruction body is 8147 tokens: crowds the task out of the window
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web) that frontmatter does not declare
- 100Steps. 108 steps
- 100Result and completion. Output format and completion criterion are stated
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 10 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 851: 120–800 characters recommended
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 24 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 108 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (3 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (5 of 5)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 78.