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linux-shell-scripting

Provide production-ready shell script templates for common Linux system administration tasks including backups, monitoring, user management, log analysis, and automation. These scripts serve as building blocks for security operations and penetration testing environments.

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tessl review fix ./plugins/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills-claude/skills/linux-shell-scripting/SKILL.md

The canonical home for this skill is linux-shell-scripting in administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

46%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 body provides a broad, mostly executable library of shell scripts but is verbose, lacks validation checkpoints for destructive operations, and is a monolithic wall of inlined content with no progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Add validation/dry-run checkpoints to destructive and batch scripts (e.g., rsync --dry-run, find with -print before -delete, backup rotation listing before rm) and cap the workflow accordingly.

Trim obvious per-script comments and the Quick Reference rows that restate known concepts (shebang, chmod) to reduce token load.

Split the catalog into per-category reference files (backups.md, monitoring.md, etc.) linked from a concise SKILL.md overview to implement progressive disclosure.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The ~500-line body inlines many scripts, each with a comment restating the obvious, plus a Quick Reference that explains '#!/bin/bash' as 'Shebang for bash' — noticeably verbose with padded sections Claude already knows.

2 / 5

Actionability

Scripts are concrete and executable (tar, rsync, mysqldump, openssl, awk) with mostly copy-paste-ready code; minor gaps (placeholder paths, stubbed notification logic, hardcoded credentials) keep it below fully executable.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

This is a catalog, not a sequenced workflow, and several destructive/batch scripts (backup rotation rm -r, find -exec rm, rsync --delete) lack validation or dry-run steps, capping workflow clarity at 3 per the rubric.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A monolithic single-file catalog with no external references or bundle files; content that belongs in per-category reference files is all inlined, with only section headers for structure.

2 / 5

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Description

71%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 comprehensively lists task categories, but lacks an explicit 'Use when…' trigger clause, which caps its completeness. It is mostly distinct from other skills with only minor overlap risk.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause such as 'Use when the user needs shell scripts for Linux backups, monitoring, user management, log analysis, or scheduled automation.'

Include natural synonyms and concrete artifacts users mention (e.g., 'bash scripts', 'cron jobs', '.sh files') to improve trigger-term coverage.

Sharpen the niche framing so it is clearly distinguishable from generic shell-scripting or DevOps skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (Linux sysadmin) and multiple concrete task categories — 'backups, monitoring, user management, log analysis, and automation' — matching the comprehensive-coverage anchor.

5 / 5

Completeness

Provides a clear 'what' (shell script templates for listed tasks) but no explicit 'when'/'Use when' trigger clause; the 'building blocks for security operations' line is context, not a trigger, capping completeness at 3 per the rubric.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good keyword coverage of sysadmin terms (backups, monitoring, log analysis) but missing natural trigger phrasing ('Use when…') and common synonyms/file extensions.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Linux-sysadmin/pentest framing gives it a mostly distinct niche, though the broad task list (automation, backups, monitoring) carries minor overlap risk with general shell-scripting skills.

4 / 5

Total

16

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Validation

87%

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

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

skill_md_line_count

SKILL.md is long (509 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

14

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16

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