BB VSCode
Configures, debugs, and speeds up Visual Studio Code: settings scopes, launch.json, tasks.json, extensions, keybindings, formatters, and remote work. Use when a setting has no effect because something else overrides it, when format-on-save runs the wrong formatter or two formatters fight, when a breakpoint stays hollow, F5 does nothing, or a debug config will not attach, when a watch task hangs preLaunchTask forever, when the extension host crashes or two extensions collide, when IntelliSense dies and the TypeScript server or Python interpreter stops resolving, when a keyboard shortcut is swallowed by the terminal, when Remote-SSH, WSL, dev containers, or tunnels misbehave, when startup, search, or file watching is slow, or when deciding what belongs in .vscode/ and which extensions a fork like VSCodium or Cursor can install. Not for language semantics (`typescript`, `py`), Docker image authoring (`docker`), or general bug isolation (`debugging`).
As a process B 74/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: inputs and preconditions
How to improve
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- 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: 20. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
name-formatname should be kebab-case (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens) - warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 7396 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/ - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "slug" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "homepage" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "changelog"
Process rating: all ten parameters 74/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web, python, node) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 7396 tokens
- 100Steps. 43 steps
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Failures and branches. 6 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 14 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- low The response is described with custom markup (4 tags): a typed call is more reliable
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
- +3Description length 961: 120–800 characters recommended
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +4Structure: 14 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 43 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 66.