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xs-leaks

XS-Leaks — cross-site information leaks via timing, frame counting, navigation, error oracles. Side-channel attacks against same-origin authenticated state.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

76%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The content is concise, well-structured, and largely actionable with executable detection snippets and a clear external reference. Its main weakness is workflow clarity — the PoC and detection steps lack explicit validation checkpoints or a verify-then-proceed loop.

Suggestions

Add an explicit validation/verification checkpoint in the PoC framing section (e.g. confirm the inferred value against a known victim state before reporting severity) to lift workflow clarity above 3.

Provide runnable snippets for the categories currently only described (window.name, CSS style oracle, cache-timing search presence) to close the actionability gaps.

Make the detection-vs-exploitation workflow sequence explicit (host attacker page → load target in iframe → measure → infer → document) with numbered steps.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence — short category blurbs plus minimal executable snippets, no padding or explanation of basic browser concepts; every section earns its place.

5 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, executable JavaScript snippets for timing and frame-count detection, but several categories (window.name, CSS oracle, search presence) are described rather than shown with runnable code, leaving minor gaps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Categories and a PoC framing section give rough sequence, but there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops, and the detection section mixes techniques without a clear execute-then-verify flow.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clear sections with an external canonical reference (xsleaks.dev) and a cross-reference to a related skill; no bundle files exist to split further, and structure is appropriate for a sub-50-line skill with minor navigation gaps.

4 / 5

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20

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Description

66%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The description is specific and reasonably well-triggered with good domain keywords, but it lacks an explicit 'Use when...' clause telling Claude when to invoke the skill, which caps completeness. Distinctiveness is good given the narrow side-channel focus.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when ...' trigger clause (e.g. 'Use when investigating cross-origin side-channel leaks, frame-counting oracles, or XS-Search enumeration') to raise completeness.

Surface a few more natural user phrasings as trigger terms (e.g. 'side-channel', 'XS-Search', 'cache timing') to broaden keyword coverage.

Lead with the concrete actions the skill performs (enumerate identifiers, detect membership, infer search-result presence) before the mechanism list for stronger specificity.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (cross-site information leaks) and several concrete leak vectors — 'timing, frame counting, navigation, error oracles' — but stops short of a fully comprehensive action list, fitting 'several specific actions; minor gaps'.

4 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clearly stated (cross-site information leaks via specific oracles), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or explicit trigger guidance for when Claude should invoke it, capping completeness at 3 per the rubric.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms users would say ('xs-leak', 'xsleak', 'frame count', 'navigation', 'timing oracle', 'cross-origin') with synonyms, though a few common phrasings like 'side-channel' as a standalone trigger are only implied rather than listed.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche (browser side-channel leaks across origins) is fairly distinct with limited overlap risk against generic web skills, though it could brush against broader client-side exploit skills.

4 / 5

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15

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

Passed

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