AC checkmate
Enforces task completion: turns your goal into pass/fail criteria, runs a worker, judges the output, feeds back what's missing, and loops until every criterion passes. Nothing ships until it's truly done. Trigger: 'checkmate: TASK'
As a process C 61/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, running it twice
How to improve
For the model run — optional
- 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: 10. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "requires" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "privileges"
Process rating: all ten parameters 61/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 6 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 85Steps. 35 steps, 2 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2282 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 231: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 12 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 35 items
- +4Has examples (7 code blocks)
- +3All 2 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 85.
External checks
ClawHub: suspicious
Checkmate is transparent about its purpose, but it can run long-lived autonomous agents with shell, network, connected-account, messaging, and session-control access.
LLM: suspicious (high) · VirusTotal: suspicious · 28 May 2026