AC red-queen-effect
Activate when: user says 'we keep investing but market share won't move,' 'why does nobody make money in this industry,' 'our competitor copied us again within a year,' 'we improve but the gap stays the same,' or is evaluating whether to enter a low-margin high-activity industry. Do NOT activate when: the competitive advantage is protected by strong IP, regulatory approval, or deep network effects that genuinely slow imitation; or when the situation is pre-competitive with no direct rivals yet. More: deciqai.com/c/red-queen-effect
Activate when: user says 'we keep investing but market share won't move,' 'why does nobody make money in this industry,' 'our competitor copied us again…
As a process C 63/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, failures and branches, running it twice
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: 5. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 63/100
- 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
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 23 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2087 tokens
- low 10 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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 536: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 11 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 23 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 95.