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FC reticle

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Not recommendedcritical or high security findings · low grade F
reticlehq/reticle Agent Skills author: reticlehq NOASSERTION 80 files · 31 scripts body ≈ 3 805 tokens Open the sourcegithub.com↗ analyzed 2 d ago

Reticle is the proof layer for AI coding agents.

As a process C 57/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions

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Technical rating
F
28/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
47
Quality 40%
0
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
C
57/100
Has gaps
Result and completion w 14
0
Inputs and preconditions w 11
0
When it triggers w 12
30
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

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.

Concealment
If you install

The skill tells the agent to hide things from you: not to show errors, not to mention actions, to report differently from what was done. You lose the ability to see what the agent really did.

For the author

Transparency beats a smooth answer. If the goal is to hide technical noise, ask the agent to "summarise briefly", not to "not mention".

Dangerous commands medium severity

Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.

If you install

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.

For the author

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

  1. 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.
  2. Add a description to the frontmatter: without it the skill never triggers.
For the model run — optional
  • 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 · 8

  • high Concealment en-hide-from-user SKILL.md:43
    Instruction to hide actions from the user
    **Done means a verdict.** `init` exiting 0, the tools appearing, a session listed: each proves wiring, not that anything works. Do not tell the user Reticle is set up until one real flow in their app
Medium and low: 7
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-privilege .github/workflows/ci.yml:571
    Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions
    echo 'DPkg::Lock::Timeout "300";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-d…out > /dev/null
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-privilege .github/workflows/ci.yml:961
    Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions
    echo 'DPkg::Lock::Timeout "300";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-d…out > /dev/null
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-privilege .github/workflows/ci.yml:1081
    Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions
    echo 'DPkg::Lock::Timeout "300";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-d…out > /dev/null
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-privilege .github/workflows/ci.yml:1292
    Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions
    echo 'DPkg::Lock::Timeout "300";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-d…out > /dev/null
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-privilege .github/workflows/ci.yml:1368
    Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions
    echo 'DPkg::Lock::Timeout "300";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-d…out > /dev/null
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-execpolicy-bypass .github/workflows/ci.yml:1500
    Runs PowerShell with execution policy bypassed
    $out = powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File install\install.ps1 2>&1 | Out-String
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-pipe-to-shell-known-host SKILL.md:14
    Pipe-to-shell installer from a well-known host (still executes remote code)
    curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reticlehq/reticle/main/install/install.sh | sh

Files scanned: 78. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • error frontmatter SKILL.md: no YAML frontmatter block found
  • error name-missing SKILL.md: frontmatter has no `name`
  • error description-missing SKILL.md: no `description` — the skill can never trigger

Process rating: all ten parameters 57/100

  • 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
  • 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
  • 30When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
  • 30Running it twice. 3 mutating operations with no state check
  • 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web) that frontmatter does not declare
  • 100Steps. 20 steps
  • 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
  • 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 3805 tokens
  • 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
  • medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
  • low 12 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
  • low The response is described with custom markup (5 tags): a typed call is more reliable

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 0: 120–800 characters recommended
  • +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +4Structure: 15 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 20 items
  • +4Has examples (4 code blocks)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 0.