Skill Quality and Safety in Agent Skills

Lessons in this section

1. Diagnosing Skills

   Find why a skill does not work: the six layers every request passes through, how to find the first broken one, skills that fire for the wrong request, and changing one thing at a time.

2. Skill Evaluation

   Testing skills at five levels: structure, activation, output, behavior and human review, with control cases, baselines and regression checks.

3. Skill Security

   Checking skills before you use them: red flags in instructions and scripts, reading the raw file, inputs as data, keeping secrets out, and reviewing every update.