BD pdf-explore
Use this skill when the user has attached a PDF, paper, report, or other document and the answer needs its content: summarize a section, compare sections, read specific pages, check the table of contents, or read a value off a figure. The `read` tool cannot parse PDF binary — python is the extraction path. Provides `pdf_pages` (pages as text or rendered PNGs, cached) and `pdf_outline` (embedded-bookmark TOC) in the persistent python kernel; load them once via the Runtime Sidecar exec line that `use_skill` appends. For PDF creation/manipulation, use reportlab/pypdf directly.
Use this skill when the user has attached a PDF, paper, report, or other document and the answer needs its content: summarize a section, compare sections…
As a process D 42/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: steps, result and completion, inputs and preconditions
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 · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "fold_cue"
Process rating: all ten parameters 42/100
- 0Steps. Prose only: no discrete steps
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 962 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
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)
- +3No numbered steps or checklist
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 580: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 7 headings
- +4Has examples (4 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 81.