BC hospitable-ops
Operate, debug, and automate Hospitable via Public API with a safe read-first workflow and non-price calendar controls. Use when working with Hospitable properties, reservations, calendar reads, write verification, blocking/unblocking dates, check-in/check-out restrictions, property mapping, or cross-channel automation logic around Airbnb/Booking/Hospitable. Especially use for: (1) verifying Hospitable API auth and endpoints, (2) exporting properties/reservations/calendar, (3) testing or applying non-price calendar writes, (4) building Hospitable-based automation/reporting, (5) debugging delayed sync or write semantics.
As a process C 60/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, progress reporting
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 instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".
If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.
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 · 2
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 2
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medium Exfiltration
net-redirectable-api-keyscripts/hospitable-read.js:5Helper sends the API key to a host configured by an environment variable — the key can be redirected to another serverAPI key + configurable base URL from environment
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medium Exfiltration
net-redirectable-api-keyscripts/hospitable-write-probe.js:4Helper sends the API key to a host configured by an environment variable — the key can be redirected to another serverAPI key + configurable base URL from environment
Files scanned: 4. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
frontmatter-yamlSKILL.md: the frontmatter is not valid YAML (YAML parse error: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14: description: Operate, debug, and automate Hospitable via Public API with a safe… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
Process rating: all ten parameters 60/100
- 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
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, node) that frontmatter does not declare
- 100Steps. 82 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1506 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- low The response is described with custom markup (5 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -4Absolute local paths (C:\Users, /home/…): not portable
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 627: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 19 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 82 items
- +4Has examples (3 code blocks)
- +3All 2 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 73.