Agent skill

Tessl Skill Linting

by Devolutions in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway

Review, lint, create, edit, refine, optimize, compress, or validate any agent skill in this repository, including any SKILL.md.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Tessl Skill Linting

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Devolutions/devolutions-gateway --skill tessl-skill-linting -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Devolutions/devolutions-gateway tessl-skill-linting --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Devolutions/devolutions-gateway.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/tessl-skill-linting .claude/skills/tessl-skill-linting && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
tessl-skill-linting
GitHub stars
162
Token cost
~740 tokens
SKILL.md length
301 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Review, lint, create, edit, refine, optimize, compress, or validate any agent skill in this repository, including any SKILL.md.

  • Works in 6 steps: Identify the relevant skill directories… → Inspect the frontmatter and instructions… → Run local structural validation for… → …
  • A user asks to author
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow and Report
  • Runs PowerShell scripts from its folder; calls pwsh

What it does

Tessl Skill Linting is an agent skill from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway. Review, lint, create, edit, refine, optimize, compress, or validate any agent skill in this repository, including any SKILL.md. Use this skill whenever a user asks to author or change a skill, improve its instructions or trigger coverage, assess skill quality, or reduce its context usage, even when Tessl is not mentioned. Keep skills small and split distinct workflows into focused micro-skills when that reduces context and trigger overlap. Do not use it for ordinary application code, documentation, or workflow…

Its SKILL.md is about 740 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Linting and formatting and Technical documentation. The repository describes itself as: A blazing fast relay server adaptable to different protocols and desired levels of traffic inspection. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • A user asks to author
  • Improve its instructions
  • Trigger coverage
  • Assess skill quality

Example prompts

  • “/tessl-skill-linting”

Requirements

  • PowerShell

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify the relevant skill directories under .agents/skills.
  2. Inspect the frontmatter and instructions for valid structure, clear trigger conditions, focused scope, missing prerequisites, accurate and…
  3. Run local structural validation for every relevant skill
  4. Make only clearly justified edits inside the relevant skill and directly related local eval artifacts.
  5. Perform a deliberate compression pass.
  6. Re-run the local lint helper after edits and inspect the final diff.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 62de985. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (PowerShell), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • pwsh

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Tessl Skill Linting loads about 740 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 143 tokens; SKILL.md has 301 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~143
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~740

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway at commit 62de985, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Devolutions). 301 words, ~740 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/tessl-skill-linting/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
tessl-skill-linting
description
Review, lint, create, edit, refine, optimize, compress, or validate any agent skill in this repository, including any SKILL.md. Use this skill whenever a user asks to author or change a skill, improve its instructions or trigger coverage, assess skill quality, or reduce its context usage, even when Tessl is not mentioned. Keep skills small and split distinct workflows into focused micro-skills when that reduces context and trigger overlap. Do not use it for ordinary application code, documentation, or workflow changes that are not agent skills.

Tessl Skill Linting

Keep repository-local agent skills correct, focused, and inexpensive to load.

Workflow

  1. Identify the relevant skill directories under .agents/skills. For an existing skill, read its SKILL.md before editing and preserve its intended behavior and scope. For a new skill, inspect neighboring skills for conventions, then create the target directory and initial SKILL.md from the requested scope.

  2. Inspect the frontmatter and instructions for valid structure, clear trigger conditions, focused scope, missing prerequisites, accurate and safe tooling steps, ambiguity, brittleness, redundancy, and likely failure cases.

  3. Run local structural validation for every relevant skill:

    powershell
    pwsh <this-skill-directory>/scripts/Test-TesslSkill.ps1 -SkillDirectory <skill-directory>

    The helper stages the skill in a temporary directory, creates Tessl's required local metadata there, runs tessl skill lint <temporary-skill-directory>, and removes the staging directory. Treat lint findings as input to fix when appropriate. Tessl lint validates structure, not whether the workflow is semantically complete.

  4. Make only clearly justified edits inside the relevant skill and directly related local eval artifacts. Do not change application code, unrelated skills, or repository configuration.

  5. Perform a deliberate compression pass. Remove filler, repetition, ceremonial headings, generic advice, redundant rules, needless examples, and details better suited to a progressive-disclosure reference. Prefer concise imperative language. Keep the initial SKILL.md minimal; add a reference only when specialized material is substantial and needed conditionally. Prefer focused micro-skills over one broad skill when distinct workflows can trigger or load independently.

  6. Re-run the local lint helper after edits and inspect the final diff.

Report

State:

  • Tessl lint findings and their resolution.
  • Meaningful edits and the behavior they preserve or improve.
  • Two or three recommended future local test prompts that exercise triggering and instructions.

Use Tessl only for temporary local import and structural linting. Cloud features, including tessl skill review, managed evals, scenarios, project creation or linking, publishing, and credentials, are out of scope.

© Devolutions, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in .agents/skills/tessl-skill-linting of Devolutions/devolutions-gateway.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/Test-TesslSkill.ps1

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 62de985

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders. This page covers the copy in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Tessl Skill Linting

What does Tessl Skill Linting do?

Review, lint, create, edit, refine, optimize, compress, or validate any agent skill in this repository, including any SKILL.md. Tessl Skill Linting is an agent skill from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway.md.

When should I use Tessl Skill Linting?

Tessl Skill Linting fits situations like: A user asks to author; improve its instructions; trigger coverage; assess skill quality.

How do I install Tessl Skill Linting in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Devolutions/devolutions-gateway --skill tessl-skill-linting -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/tessl-skill-linting in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway) into .claude/skills/tessl-skill-linting in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Tessl Skill Linting in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Devolutions/devolutions-gateway --skill tessl-skill-linting -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/tessl-skill-linting in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway) into .agents/skills/tessl-skill-linting in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Tessl Skill Linting in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Devolutions/devolutions-gateway --skill tessl-skill-linting -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/tessl-skill-linting, .gemini/skills/tessl-skill-linting, .github/skills/tessl-skill-linting and .opencode/skills/tessl-skill-linting in your project.

What does Tessl Skill Linting need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Tessl Skill Linting needs PowerShell for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (pwsh). Our summary lists: PowerShell.

Does Tessl Skill Linting access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Tessl Skill Linting safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Tessl Skill Linting use?

Tessl Skill Linting is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Tessl Skill Linting use?

About 740 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Tessl Skill Linting?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Tessl Skill Linting: WooCommerce Markdown Guidelines (woocommerce/woocommerce, 11k stars), Swig Conventions (swig/swig, 6.3k stars), Qwen Agent (thananon/9arm-skills, 3.2k stars) and Publish Mod (rehan-remade/universal-modder, 5.3k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Tessl Skill Linting?

Devolutions (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway, which has 162 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: Devolutions/devolutions-gateway on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.