CF paper-writing
Writes and revises scientific manuscripts, journal articles, preprints, theses, reports, in full paragraphs with the argument built from the project's actual results and sources, as a real .tex or .md file in the working folder. Use for drafting or revising a paper, a section, an abstract, a response to reviewers, or a technical report in any field. For ML conference papers use ml-paper-writing; for adding or checking references use citations; for figures use figures or schematics.
Writes and revises scientific manuscripts, journal articles, preprints, theses, reports, in full paragraphs with the argument built from the project's actual…
As a process F 33/100 · No process to follow — References files that are not bundled: assets/report-template.tex, assets/scientific_report.sty
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 skill asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
How to improve
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- 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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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash glob grep webfetch
Files scanned: 10. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/report-template.tex - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/scientific_report.sty - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "summary" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "role"
Process rating: all ten parameters 33/100
- 0Tools and files. 2 referenced file(s) missing: assets/report-template.tex, assets/scientific_report.sty
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 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
- 30Running it twice. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 100Steps. 23 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1937 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)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +4No input/output examples
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 486: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 7 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 23 items
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (8 of 8)
- +3All 1 scripts are documented
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 77.