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Host security hardening and risk-tolerance configuration for Bitterbot deployments. Use when a user asks for security audits, firewall/SSH/update hardening, risk posture, exposure review, Bitterbot cron scheduling for periodic checks, or version status checks on a machine running Bitterbot (laptop, workstation, Pi, VPS).

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body delivers a well-sequenced, safety-conscious workflow with strong validation checkpoints and highly concrete commands for both host and Bitterbot tooling. Its main weakness is redundancy — several rules are restated two or three times — and a couple of command syntaxes are left elided.

Suggestions

State each core rule once: remove the duplicate model self-check (Step 0 repeats a Core rule verbatim) and consolidate the triple-repeated 'Bitterbot does not change host firewall/SSH/OS updates' warning into a single place.

Give the full 'bitterbot cron add' syntax (all flags for cadence, time window, and output location) instead of the elided 'bitterbot cron add --name <name> ...', since scheduling is a core advertised capability.

Fix or remove the 'docs/reference/templates/TOOLS.md' reference — it points outside the skill bundle — and consider moving the memory-write conventions to a reference file to shorten the main body.

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Conciseness

The body is dense and free of concept explanations, but contains clear repetition: the model self-check appears in both 'Core rules' and 'Step 0', and the warning that Bitterbot never changes host firewall/SSH/OS updates is stated three times (Core rules, Step 2, and 'Bitterbot command accuracy'). It fits 'mostly efficient but could be tightened' better than the 'minor instances of over-explanation' level above.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, copy-paste-ready commands appear throughout with per-OS variants ('ss -ltnup', 'ufw status', 'bitterbot security audit --deep', exact cron job names), but 'bitterbot cron add --name <name> ...' elides its actual flags and no example hardening (firewall/SSH) commands are provided.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Steps 0-8 are clearly sequenced with read-only checks first, the plan shown before any change, per-step confirmation with 'Stop on unexpected output and ask for guidance', an explicit verification pass (Step 8 re-checks firewall, ports, remote access, and re-runs the audit), and an always-required confirmations checklist.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist, and the single document is well-sectioned with a flat, navigable structure. Minor gaps: the reference to 'docs/reference/templates/TOOLS.md' points outside the skill bundle, and the memory-write conventions are a candidate for a separate reference file.

4 / 5

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16

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20

Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: it states a concrete capability set and pairs it with an explicit 'Use when' clause listing the natural trigger phrases a user would actually say. The only weakness is a handful of missing colloquial synonyms in the trigger list.

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Specificity

The description enumerates multiple concrete operations — 'security audits, firewall/SSH/update hardening, risk posture, exposure review, Bitterbot cron scheduling for periodic checks, or version status checks' — comprehensively covering the skill's actions rather than stopping at one or two.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both: the what ('Host security hardening and risk-tolerance configuration for Bitterbot deployments') and the when ('Use when a user asks for security audits, firewall/SSH/update hardening...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good coverage of natural phrases users would say ('security audits', 'firewall/SSH/update hardening', 'risk posture', 'exposure review', 'cron scheduling', 'version status checks') plus deployment synonyms (laptop, workstation, Pi, VPS), though a few natural phrasings like 'lockdown' or 'is this machine secure' are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The scope is tightly tied to 'a machine running Bitterbot (laptop, workstation, Pi, VPS)', creating a clear niche with product-specific triggers and minimal risk of firing for unrelated security or scheduling skills.

5 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

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Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop
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