BC talkies
Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible speech service. /v1/audio/transcriptions fronts 14 open ASR models (Whisper, Parakeet, Nemotron-3.5-ASR, Canary, Sherpa-ONNX, Vosk, plus wav2vec2 and ZIPA phoneme recognizers that emit IPA); /v1/audio/transcriptions/stream accepts live PCM over WebSocket. /v1/audio/speech fronts 3 TTS engines / 4 backends — Kokoro-82M (41 baked voices, PyTorch + ONNX runtimes), the CUDA-only Qwen3-TTS family (voice cloning, preset speakers, voice design), and the CUDA-only Chatterbox Turbo (English, 19 inline emotion tags, transcript-free cloning). Stereo diarization, URL fetching, six ASR/file-staging MCP tools, bearer auth.
Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible speech service.
As a process C 53/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, execution cost
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
- 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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:617Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TALKIES_AUTH_TOKEN" $TALKIES_URL/v1/models
Files scanned: 4. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 11986 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/ - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "homepage" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "permissions"
Process rating: all ten parameters 53/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 35 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Execution cost. Instruction body is 11986 tokens: crowds the task out of the window
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 85Steps. 76 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 15 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- low The response is described with custom markup (8 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)
- -2localhost URLs: will not work for another user
- -31 of 1 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 646: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 39 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 76 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (26 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 74.