CC paper-illustration-image2
Generate publication-quality academic illustrations through a local Codex app-server bridge that uses Codex native image generation. This is a separate experimental alternative to `paper-illustration`, intended for Claude Code users who want a GPT-image-style renderer without modifying the original skill.
Generate publication-quality academic illustrations through a local Codex app-server bridge that uses Codex native image generation.
As a process C 59/100 · Has gaps — References files that are not bundled: ../shared-references/reviewer-backends.md, ../shared-references/integration-contract.md
The same skill appears in 1 more place: Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
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
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- 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: Bash(*)allowed-tools: Bash(*) Read Write Edit Grep Glob WebSearch mcp_…ate mcp_…art mcp_…tus spawn_agent send_input mcp__antigravity__ant
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when") - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../shared-references/reviewer-backends.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../shared-references/integration-contract.md - note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 87): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 59/100
- 0Tools and files. 2 referenced file(s) missing: ../shared-references/reviewer-backends.md, ../shared-references/integration-contract.md
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4417 tokens
- 85Steps. 107 steps, 3 vague phrases
- 100Result and completion. Output format and completion criterion are stated
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- low 16 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)
- -214 emoji in the instructions: noise for the model
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 306: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 26 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 107 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (8 code blocks)
- +3All 1 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 67.