BC thought-leader-tracker
Daily automated collection of podcasts, interviews, and videos from thought leaders across YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Generates Markdown reports with content summaries, key points, and common theme analysis. Use when tracking thought leader content, creating daily digests, analyzing industry trends, or monitoring specific experts' new releases.
As a process C 54/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
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 files contain invisible characters, encoded commands or comments hidden from readers but visible to the model. What you read differs from what the agent sees.
Remove invisible characters (they usually sneak in through copy-paste) and encoded strings: no catalog will pass them. Instructions for the model must be readable by a human too.
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 · 5
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 5
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medium Obfuscation
obf-hex-escape-chaindaily-logs/daily-report-2026-03-26-7d.md:174Escaped/char-code string obfuscation- **Link:** https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E8%8F%B2%E5%88%A9%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%E8%A5%BF%E7%8F%AD%E7%89%99%E8%AF%AD/id14…529?uo=4
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medium Obfuscation
obf-hex-escape-chaindaily-logs/daily-report-2026-03-26-7d.md:195Escaped/char-code string obfuscation- **Link:** https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E9%98%BF%E9%9D%9E%E5%88%A9%E5%8A%A0-%E9%9D%9E%E6%B4%B2%E5%8F%8A%E6%96%B0%E5%85%B4%E5%B8%82%E5%9C%BA%E5%95%86%E4%B8%9A%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E5%91%A8%E6%8
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medium Obfuscation
obf-hex-escape-chaindaily-logs/daily-report-2026-03-27-7d.md:174Escaped/char-code string obfuscation- **Link:** https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E8%8F%B2%E5%88%A9%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%E8%A5%BF%E7%8F%AD%E7%89%99%E8%AF%AD/id14…529?uo=4
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medium Obfuscation
obf-hex-escape-chaindaily-logs/daily-report-2026-03-27-7d.md:195Escaped/char-code string obfuscation- **Link:** https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E9%98%BF%E9%9D%9E%E5%88%A9%E5%8A%A0-%E9%9D%9E%E6%B4%B2%E5%8F%8A%E6%96%B0%E5%85%B4%E5%B8%82%E5%9C%BA%E5%95%86%E4%B8%9A%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E5%91%A8%E6%8
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low Exfiltration
exfil-secret-in-urlscripts/collector.js:26Credential passed in a URL query string (normal for some APIs — verify the host is the intended service) (placeholder value)// const url = `https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?q=…)}&type=video&order=date&maxResults=10&key=${apiKey}`;placeholder
Files scanned: 9. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 54/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (thought-leader-tracker) differs from the folder (thought-leader-tracker-skill)
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 14 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 521 tokens
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)
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 357: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 14 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (4 code blocks)
- +3All 1 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 90.