CB placecall
Place real outbound phone calls to US businesses through the PlaceCall API: book, ask, get quotes, then read the outcome and transcript.
Place real outbound phone calls to US businesses through the PlaceCall API: book, ask, get quotes, then read the outcome and transcript.
As a process B 65/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, running it twice
The same skill appears in 2 more places: agentic-awesome-skills, agentic-awesome-skills
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".
If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.
How to improve
- For Hermes the description must be one sentence under 60 characters; move the conditions to a "When to Use" section.
- 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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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:50Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" https://api.voygr.tech/users/me
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:99Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)OUT=$(curl -s --max-time 20 -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" \
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:128Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -s -H "X-API-Key: $PLACECALL_API_KEY" https://api.voygr.tech/calls/$ID
Files scanned: 1. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-long-hermesdescription is 136 chars; the Hermes authoring standard requires ≤ 60 (one sentence, ending with a period) - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "risk" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "source" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "source_repo" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "source_type" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "date_added" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "tools" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "license_source" - note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 124): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 65/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 12 mutating operations with no state check
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 85Steps. 36 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2890 tokens
- 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
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 136: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 18 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 36 items
- +4Has examples (8 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 80.