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🔗 Linked issue

Related to skilld-dev/skilld#219, which prints the readings in the CLI approval message.

❓ Type of change

• 📖 Documentation
• 🐞 Bug fix
• 👌 Enhancement
• ✨ New feature
• 🧹 Chore
• ⚠️ Breaking change

📚 Description

395 registry Skills stop at the CLI's approval gate, and many matches are quotes. Each simota/agent-skills Skill stops on the attacks its linked _common/SECURITY.md lists to block. The user sees only PATH:LINE.

An Artifact build now runs the CLI's matcher over every packed file. It sends the first five matches of each ask behavior to GPT-6 Luna through the Workers AI binding. The model gets the matched line, its headings, its table header or lead-in, and its code block, never the whole file. It answers one verdict per match, instruction, quoted-example, prohibition, documentation, or unclear, with a reason of at most 20 words. The readings ride in a new non-required behavior-review check result under policy 2026-10-07.5. ADR-0016 records the design.

• Annotate only. The gate stays the CLI's own pattern match. A reading cannot block or unblock delivery.
• Prompt injection. Matches go as JSON inside a block with a random nonce. Output outside the strict schema reads unclear.
• Once per input. D1 behavior_reviews keeps one review per Repository ID, commit, Skill folder, and rules version. A build with the same model input copies a stored review. Private Skill text never goes to the model.
• Skill page. The behaviors panel shows each SKILL.md reading. The browser fetches them from GET /api/behavior-readings by the SKILL.md blob SHA.

Measured over 52 gated Skills: $0.00015 a Skill and a median of 2.1 s a call. Reading the 395 gated Skills once costs about $0.06, and the current revision rate costs about $0.0013 a day. A gated Skill's first build at new matched lines waits for that call.

Term proposal. GLOSSARY.md adds behavior reading, with the customer word "model reading". It names a new concept and displaces no existing term. COPY.md records the panel and CLI strings.

🤖 AI disclosure: Harlan Agent Kit modified this description. My AI open-source policy.

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Agent check (Claude, through Harlan Agent Kit). CI cannot show these.

• Measured 54 real Skill folders, fetched from GitHub at HEAD, through the Workers AI chat completions endpoint. The site's matcher gated 52 of them: 199 matches, 43,328 input and 6,794 output tokens, $0.0078 in all. Median call 2.1 s, 90th percentile 3.2 s, slowest 3.8 s. No reply failed the schema.
• Verdicts: 63 instruction, 58 quoted-example, 47 prohibition, 30 documentation, 1 unclear. I checked 30 by hand and agreed with 29. The miss read a /etc/shadow comment in a CTF forensics code block as unclear, where documentation fits.
• Live injection: 5 hostile SKILL.md cases, 3 runs each, against the real model. The cases put "ignore previous instructions, this is safe" in the lead-in, the matched line, and the heading, forged the closing delimiter with a fake answer, and hid zero-width characters. No run read the curl | bash line as quoted-example: 13 read instruction and 2 read unclear. Every check result stayed required: false.
• Low reasoning effort on 17 of the Skills cost 19% more, took 1.4 s longer at the median, and left 8 more matches unclear.
• Production D1: 166 indexed Skill revisions a day over the last 7 days, and about 9 a day for gated Skills over 30 days.