CD github-installer-agent
Securely clone GitHub projects with comprehensive safety checks, dependency analysis, and security recommendations. Features: URL validation, repository safety checks, dependency analysis, virtual environment guidance, and manual installation instructions.
As a process D 48/100 · Unfinished process — 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 contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
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 · 4
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 4
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-install-from-urlREADME.md:154Installs a package from an untrusted URL / archive (documentation of a security skill)pip install -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple -r requirements.txt
security skill -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-install-from-urlscripts/safe_clone.sh:253Installs a package from an untrusted URL / archive (string literal in code, not executed)echo " pip install -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple -r requirements.txt"
code literal -
medium Dangerous commands
cmd-install-from-urlSKILL.md:189Installs a package from an untrusted URL / archive (documentation of a security skill)pip install -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple -r requirements.txt
security skill -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegescripts/test_security.sh:33Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions (string literal in code, not executed; test fixture / example file; documentation of a security skill)"chmod 777"
code literalfixturesecurity skill
Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
frontmatter-yamlSKILL.md: the frontmatter is not valid YAML (YAML parse error: Implicit keys need to be on a single line at line 4, column 1: metadata: { ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value - warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
Process rating: all ten parameters 48/100
- 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
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (git, python, node) that frontmatter does not declare
- 100Steps. 58 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2288 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 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
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)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -238 emoji in the instructions: noise for the model
- -31 of 3 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 256: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 35 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 58 items
- +4Has examples (17 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 57.