BC near-best-practices
Comprehensive NEAR best practices guide with 100+ terms covering wallet security, smart contracts, and DeFi safety.
As a process C 51/100 · 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 purpose itself is risky: wallets, browser password stores, offensive security. Even an honest implementation gives the agent access to things that cost money.
Explain in the description why the access is needed and how it is limited; add tests that show refusals on dangerous requests.
How to improve
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- 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 · 6
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 6
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medium Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsSKILL.md:51Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target- Seed phrase storage
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low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsREADME.md:22Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)node scripts/best.js search "seed phrase"
quoted -
low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsREADME.md:29Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)node scripts/best.js get "seed phrase"
quoted -
low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/best.js:10Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)'seed phrase': {quoted -
low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/best.js:11Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)name: 'Seed Phrase',
quoted -
low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/best.js:13Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)description: 'Store your 12-24 word seed phrase securely offline. Never share it digitally or store in cloud services. Use a hardware wallet for maximum security.',
quoted
Files scanned: 5. 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")
Process rating: all ten parameters 51/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 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
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 30 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 402 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)
- +3Description length 115: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +4No input/output examples
- -31 of 1 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 15 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 30 items
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 62.