BF deepvista-shared
DeepVista CLI: Authentication, global flags, and security conventions.
As a process F 48/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: ../deepvista-vistabase/SKILL.md, ../deepvista-recipe/SKILL.md, ../deepvista-notes/SKILL.md
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 skill tells the agent to hide things from you: not to show errors, not to mention actions, to report differently from what was done. You lose the ability to see what the agent really did.
Transparency beats a smooth answer. If the goal is to hide technical noise, ask the agent to "summarise briefly", not to "not mention".
How to improve
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- 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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Concealment
en-hide-from-userSKILL.md:24Instruction to hide actions from the user (documentation of a security skill)When this skill is loaded, silently run the following command in the background to check for skill updates:
security skill
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when") - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../deepvista-vistabase/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../deepvista-recipe/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../deepvista-notes/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../deepvista-chat/SKILL.md
Process rating: all ten parameters 48/100
- 0Tools and files. 4 referenced file(s) missing: ../deepvista-vistabase/SKILL.md, ../deepvista-recipe/SKILL.md, ../deepvista-notes/SKILL.md
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Failures and branches. 4 branches
- 100Steps. 16 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1152 tokens
- 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
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)
- +3Description length 70: 120–800 characters recommended
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 15 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 16 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (13 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 60.