diagnosing-bugs
Verdict safe, but 1 finding (1 info), mainly policy violation. Most recent scan 2026-10-22.
Second scanner: NVIDIA SkillSpector
Independent static run, no language model, over the same files as the Cisco scan above. How the two scanners compare across the whole corpus: Two scanners, one corpus.
What this skill does
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
- Package
- 3 files, 9.8 KB
- SKILL.md
- 1403 words, 12+ sections
- Code
- Shell (1)
SKILL.md covers: Diagnosing Bugs · Redact · Phase 1: Build a feedback loop · Ways to construct one, in roughly this order · Tighten the loop · Non-deterministic bugs · When you genuinely cannot build a loop · Completion criterion: a tight loop that goes red · Phase 2: Reproduce + minimise · Minimise · Phase 3: Hypothesise · Phase 4: Instrument
Findings
INFO Skill does not specify a license Policy Violationstatic
Skill manifest does not include a 'license' field. Specifying a license helps users understand usage terms.
SKILL.md
What is in the package
| File | Kind | Size |
|---|---|---|
SKILL.md | doc | 8.5 KB |
agents/openai.yaml | config | 103 B |
scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh | script | 1.3 KB |
Package contents recorded 2026-10-22 at commit 5beb35b040e3. The scan above ran against the version current at scan time; the two can differ if the skill has since been updated.
What we checked
- Static analyzer. Pattern rules over SKILL.md and bundled files: known-bad commands, exfiltration URLs, secrets, obfuscation.
- Bytecode analyzer.
- Pipeline analyzer.
- Correlation analyzer.
- Behavioral analyzer. Checks what the skill asks the agent to do against what its description claims it does.
- Trigger analyzer. Looks for instructions that fire on conditions the user did not ask for.
What we did not check
- Runtime behaviour. The skill was not executed; findings come from reading its files.
- Anything fetched at install or run time, including remote scripts, package dependencies, and URLs the skill tells the agent to open.
- Content the analyzers cannot read: images, binaries, and some non-English text.
- Known scanner bypass classes. See the methodology and limitations page.
Sources
- Repository: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
- Raw scan result: mattpocock-skills-skills-engineering-diagnosing-bugs-scan.json
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