AC varg-ai
Generate AI videos, images, speech, and music using varg. Use when creating videos, animations, talking characters, slideshows, product showcases, social content, or single-asset generation. Supports zero-install cloud rendering (just API key + curl) and full local rendering (bun + ffmpeg). Triggers: "create a video", "generate video", "make a slideshow", "talking head", "product video", "generate image", "text to speech", "varg", "vargai", "render video", "lip sync", "captions".
As a process C 63/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
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 asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
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 Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bash(curl:*)allowed-tools: Bash(bun:*) Bash(bunx:*) Bash(npx:*) Bash(curl:*) Bash(mkdir:*) Bash(echo:*) Bash(chmod:*) Read Write Edit
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processreferences/local-render.md:120Starts a background / autostarted processnohup bunx vargai render video.tsx --verbose > output/render.log 2>&1 &
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processreferences/templates.md:479Starts a background / autostarted processnohup bunx vargai render template.tsx --verbose > output/render.log 2>&1 &
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shell-known-hostscripts/setup.sh:187Pipe-to-shell installer from a well-known host (still executes remote code) (string literal in code, not executed)dim " curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash"
code literal -
low Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:103Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service) (the skill's own vendor host)curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $VARG_API_KEY" https://api.varg.ai/v2/billing/balance
vendor-host
Files scanned: 14. 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 63/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 4 mutating operations with no state check
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100Steps. 18 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 3 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2979 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low The response is described with custom markup (9 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
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -32 of 2 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 11 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 484: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 14 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 18 items
- +4Has examples (15 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (10 of 10)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 91.