credentials

Secure credential management for trading platforms

Quality

43%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

Pending

No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Risky

Do not use without reviewing

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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./src/skills/bundled/credentials/SKILL.md

Quality

Discovery

22%

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

This description is too brief and vague to effectively guide skill selection. It lacks concrete actions, explicit trigger conditions, and natural user keywords. The trading platform focus provides minimal distinctiveness but isn't enough to compensate for the missing detail.

Suggestions

Add specific actions like 'Store, retrieve, and rotate API keys and secrets for trading platforms like Binance, Coinbase, or Interactive Brokers'

Include a 'Use when...' clause with trigger terms such as 'API keys', 'trading credentials', 'exchange authentication', 'secrets management'

List common user phrases that would trigger this skill, including platform-specific terms and actions like 'connect to exchange' or 'set up trading API'

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description uses vague language ('secure credential management') without listing any concrete actions. It doesn't specify what operations are performed (e.g., store, retrieve, rotate, encrypt credentials).	1 / 3
Completeness	Only weakly addresses 'what' (credential management) and completely lacks any 'when' guidance. No 'Use when...' clause or explicit trigger conditions are provided.	1 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Contains some relevant keywords ('credential', 'trading platforms') but misses common variations users might say like 'API keys', 'secrets', 'passwords', 'authentication', or specific platform names.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The 'trading platforms' qualifier provides some specificity, but 'credential management' is generic enough to potentially conflict with other security or authentication-related skills.	2 / 3
	Total	6 / 12 Passed

Implementation

64%

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

This skill provides comprehensive, actionable API documentation with excellent code examples and clear command references. However, it's overly long for a SKILL.md file and lacks explicit workflow validation steps for the credential management lifecycle. The content would benefit from being split into a quick-start overview and a separate detailed API reference.

Suggestions

Add an explicit workflow section showing the full credential lifecycle: add → test → verify success → use, with validation checkpoints and error recovery steps

Split the detailed TypeScript API reference into a separate REFERENCE.md file, keeping only quick-start examples in SKILL.md

Remove the security features table describing standard practices (AES-256-GCM, no logging) that Claude already understands

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The content is mostly efficient with good use of tables and code examples, but includes some unnecessary elements like the 'Military-grade encryption' marketing language and the security features table which describes standard practices Claude would know.	2 / 3
Actionability	Excellent actionability with fully executable TypeScript code examples, specific chat commands, and copy-paste ready snippets for all operations including credential setup, retrieval, testing, and cooldown management.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	While individual operations are clear, there's no explicit workflow for the full credential lifecycle (add → test → use → rotate). The 'Best Practices' section mentions testing after adding but doesn't integrate this into a validated workflow with error recovery steps.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Content is well-organized with clear sections, but this is a monolithic 200+ line file that could benefit from splitting the full TypeScript API reference into a separate file, keeping SKILL.md as a quick reference with chat commands and basic examples.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

Validation

90%

Warnings & errors only

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

Validation — 10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	10 / 11 Passed

Repository: alsk1992/CloddsBot
Commit: 2a8c94e

Reviewed: 28 days ago

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