Skill Crossroads senior-software-engineer
rubric v1.2 · deterministic
D 65.8/100 overall
Correctness & Structure 33 2 fail
Triggering & Discoverability 33 2 fail
Clarity & Instructions 100 pass
Token & Context Cost 100 pass
Safety & Security 81 2 warn
Verifiability & Maintainability not yet scored

Top fixes — ranked by score impact

✗ STRUCT-01 Valid YAML frontmatter
senior-software-engineer.md:1— → YAML parser rejected the frontmatter block
Frontmatter failed to parse: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14: description: Use this agent when you need to implement complex features that re… ^
Fix Fix the YAML so it is a valid `key: value` mapping between the opening and closing `---` fences.
✗ STRUCT-02 Recommended fields present
senior-software-engineer.md:1
No frontmatter to read fields from (see STRUCT-01).
Fix Add frontmatter with a `description` field.
✗ TRIGGER-02 Description long enough to anchor invocation
senior-software-engineer.md:1
No description — nothing for the model to match against.
Fix Add a description that leads with the use case and the phrases a user would say.
✗ TRIGGER-03 Invocation cues in the description
senior-software-engineer.md:1
No description — no invocation cues possible.
Fix Add a description with explicit cues: 'Use when …' plus the phrases a user would say.
⚠ SAFETY-03 No destructive auto-invocation
senior-software-engineer.md:32auto-invocable (no disable-model-invocation) → performs a destructive action ("deployment")
Skill appears to "deployment" but the model can auto-invoke it — a destructive action could fire without the user asking.
deployment
Fix If this action is destructive/irreversible, set `disable-model-invocation: true` so it only runs when explicitly invoked.
⚠ SAFETY-02 allowed-tools least-privilege
senior-software-engineer.md:1no `tools` declared → the agent inherits every tool, including Bash
Subagents without a `tools` list get unrestricted tool access.
Fix Declare a scoped `tools:` list with only what the agent needs (e.g. `tools: Read, Grep, Glob`).
Partial grade — some applicable rubric categories were not scored on this scan (e.g. LLM-assisted checks without a key) and are excluded from the overall.

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