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x-api-pentest

Use when the user provides an OpenAPI or Swagger spec and asks to find security issues, pentest the API, audit endpoints for OWASP API Top 10, or check for BOLA, BFLA, mass assignment, injection, or SSRF vulnerabilities in a running HTTP API

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Quality

Content

92%

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

The body is a lean, highly actionable orchestration map with strong workflow sequencing and validation gates. Its one real weakness is progressive disclosure: the step-file architecture, gotchas.md, and shared x-shared files are referenced as the execution spine but are missing from the bundle.

Suggestions

Ship the steps/step-01-recon.md … step-06-report.md files referenced by the Workflow section, or inline the step content if the bundle is meant to be self-contained — "Start with step 1 now" currently points to a non-existent file.

Add gotchas.md (referenced in Bootstrap step 2, the Gotchas section, and the Red Flags Noise Filters item) to the bundle, since the safety-critical Noise Filters logic depends on it.

Resolve the ../x-shared/ references (capability-loading.md, severity-guide.md, mcp-toolbox.md) — either bundle them or note they are external prerequisites — so the bootstrap and severity sections do not silently break.

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Conciseness

Dense and lean with no concept-explanation padding (no "what is OWASP"/"what is an API" prose); every section carries actionable pointers and assumes Claude's competence, matching the lean 3-anchor.

3 / 3

Actionability

Concrete and specific throughout — exact tool names, exact config.json keys, a copy-paste MCP call (mcp__basic-memory__search_notes({query, page_size:5})), exact target allowlist patterns, and a defined step sequence; the instruction-only carve-out means delegating CLI flags to references is not penalized since the body guidance is itself actionable.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced 6-step process with explicit checkpoints ("Halt at every checkpoint", non-negotiable consent gate), stated step dependencies (step 4 requires step 2 credentials), and a verification feedback loop (curl repro for every Critical/High) plus a Red Flags checklist — matching the 3-anchor for risky operations.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The references/ layer is well-signaled and one-level-deep (8 files all present, each annotated with when to load), but the central workflow points to files absent from the bundle — steps/step-01..06, gotchas.md, and ../x-shared/*.md do not exist — so navigation as packaged is incomplete rather than easy.

2 / 3

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Description

100%

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, specific description with an explicit Use-when trigger and concrete, natural-language action and vulnerability terms. It cleanly separates this skill from neighboring pentest/code-review skills.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — "find security issues, pentest the API, audit endpoints for OWASP API Top 10, or check for BOLA, BFLA, mass assignment, injection, or SSRF vulnerabilities" — rather than vague language; third-person imperative voice throughout, no first/second person.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicit "Use when..." clause supplies the trigger conditions and the action list supplies the "what"; both halves are present and explicit, matching the 3-anchor.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms a security tester would actually say are well covered: "OpenAPI or Swagger spec", "pentest the API", "audit endpoints", "OWASP API Top 10", plus concrete vuln names (BOLA, BFLA, SSRF).

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The OpenAPI/Swagger-spec-driven niche with these specific triggers is clearly distinguishable from general security or code-review skills and unlikely to fire for the wrong skill.

3 / 3

Total

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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.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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quangtran88/x-skills
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