BA vendor-evaluation
Evaluate, select, and contract with vendors and SaaS tools. Use this skill when comparing alternatives, running an RFP, scoring vendors against criteria, negotiating contracts, planning a switch, or assessing a vendor's risk. Triggers on vendor evaluation, RFP, vendor selection, build vs buy, SaaS evaluation, vendor scorecard, vendor comparison, contract negotiation, vendor switch, procurement. Also triggers when a renewal is coming up or when a tool isn't meeting expectations.
Evaluate, select, and contract with vendors and SaaS tools.
As a process A 81/100 · Runs to the end — weak spots: running it twice, 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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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low Risky intent
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Files scanned: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
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Process rating: all ten parameters 81/100
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 3 mutating operations with no state check
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 85Steps. 95 steps, 3 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Result and completion. Output format and completion criterion are stated
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2679 tokens
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)
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 482: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 24 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 95 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 85.