qvr

Author a frozen, graded eval harness for ONE inner skill and freeze it inside that skill as a conformant eval/ directory (scenarios + deterministic evaluator + rubric + fixtures + HARNESS.md manifest). The eval content is skill-specific; this skill is the reusable methodology that produces it. Its output is consumed read-only by optimize-skill-loop. Use BEFORE optimizing — when a skill needs a graded before/after harness built. Trigger phrases: "build an eval harness for <skill>", "create a skill eval", "instrument <skill> with a frozen grader", "write scenarios and a rubric for <skill>".

Deterministic outer-loop optimizer for a skill that already carries a frozen eval (produced upstream by an eval source such as create-skill-eval). Runs the frozen eval across user-chosen agents on fresh headless sessions via a pluggable adapter, grades quality/cost/perf, keeps the pareto-best variant, and versions every iteration with qvr. Use when a skill is already instrumented and you want a reproducible, article-grade before/after. (To BUILD the eval first, use create-skill-eval.) Trigger phrases: "run the skill optimization loop", "optimize <skill> across agents", "grade and evolve <skill> across versions".

Records and queries what agents actually did, attributed to the skill that was active, using qvr's experimental audit subsystem. Use when a user wants observability into agent or skill behavior — e.g. "track what my skills are doing", "audit agent tool calls", "which skill ran during this session", "show recent agent activity", or "export agent traces for analysis". Covers qvr audit enable, discover, status, logs, sessions, and export. Experimental and opt-in; the command surface and storage may change.

Customizes an installed agent skill and ships it back upstream or as a versioned fork using qvr's edit/publish authoring loop. Use when a user wants to modify, customize, fork, release, or publish a qvr skill — e.g. "edit this skill", "publish my changes", "fork a skill to my own repo", "cut a v1.0.0 release of a skill", or "iterate on a skill and tag new versions". Covers qvr edit, diff, status, and publish (--fork --migrate --tag, --auto-commit, root vs nested layout), including the consume-mode round trip.

Discovers and installs agent skills into a project (or the user-global lane) with the qvr CLI, where qvr.toml declares intent and qvr.lock is the resolved source of truth for what loads. Use when a user wants to find, add, register, or install skills from a skills registry or GitHub repo with qvr — e.g. "register a skill registry", "search for a qvr skill", "qvr add this skill", "install a skill globally", or "why is my skill not loading after I dropped it into the agent's skills directory". Covers registry add, search, the one-step add github.com/org/repo/skill form, --global, and sync.

Reproduces an exact agent-skill set across machines, teammates, and CI using qvr's portable manifest and lockfile guarantees. Use when a user wants to share, pin, replicate, or CI-gate their qvr skills — e.g. "export my skills", "import this skill manifest", "pin everything to exact commits", "make skills reproducible", "fail CI if skills drift", or "onboard a teammate to the same skills". Covers qvr export/import, --frozen pinning, and the sync --locked / sync --check CI assertions.

Vets and continuously verifies the integrity and provenance of agent skills installed with qvr. Use when a user cares about skill security, trust, signing, tampering, or supply-chain integrity — e.g. "scan this skill for problems", "is this skill safe", "verify the skill hasn't drifted", "who is allowed to author this registry's skills", "check the signature", or "gate CI on skill integrity". Covers qvr scan, lock verify (--fail-on, --repair), trust pin/verify, and provenance.

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A baseline skill that the security scanner must report as completely clean. Used as a false-positive gate.

Fixture for the data-exfiltration patterns. Designed to fire E2 (env harvesting), E3 (filesystem credential scan), and E4 (conversation export) in a single skill so the scanner regression test can assert the whole category at once.

Fixture for the prompt-injection check. Contains several documented injection patterns embedded as instructions, not as docs about injection.

Fixture for the MCP least-privilege check. Declares allowed-tools containing only "Read" but ships Python code that exercises shell and network capabilities, so LP1 must fire for both undeclared capabilities.

Fixture for the permissions check. Declares unrestricted Bash in allowed-tools and ships a dangerous executable script.

Fixture for the rogue-agent rule family (RA1 self-modification, RA2 session persistence via crontab and shell rc). The fixture ships a SKILL.md plus a Python helper that overwrites its own source.

Fixture for the secrets check. Contains hardcoded credential-shaped strings that the scanner must flag as critical findings.

Fixture for the YARA-lite signature engine. Carries a small bash reverse-shell script (YR1_bash_reverse_shell) and a minimal PHP eval webshell (YR2_php_eval_shell) so the integration test can assert both critical signature matches in a single scan.

Fixture for the supply-chain check. Ships a requirements.txt pinning a known-vulnerable pyyaml (CVE-2020-14343), an unpinned requirement, an abandoned package, and a typosquatted name. Drives SC1/SC4/SC5/SC6 simultaneously.

Fixture exercising the tool-misuse rule family (TM1a shell=True, TM1b rm -rf root, TM1c --no-verify, TM1d chmod 777, TM3 verify=False) and SC2 curl pipe shell. Used by the scanner integration test as the canonical "tool misuse" sample.

Fixture for the unicode check. Contains hidden zero-width and bidirectional-override characters that the scanner must flag.

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An example skill for testing registry discovery.

A valid test skill for unit testing. Use when testing the quiver validation pipeline to ensure correct skills pass all checks.