# Trust Me Bro

> Run controlled, paired evaluations of an Agent Skill against a no-skill baseline or previous revision, using isolated contexts, raw artifacts, deterministic verification, and blind comparison. Use when validating a new or edited skill, testing whether instructions improve pass rate enough to justify tokens or latency, resolving competing skill versions, or producing reproducible efficacy evidence…

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-paranoidandroid2124-sounds-like-a-skill-issue-trust-me-bro`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [paranoidandroid2124](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/paranoidandroid2124)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [paranoidandroid2124](https://github.com/paranoidandroid2124)
- **Source:** https://github.com/paranoidandroid2124/sounds-like-a-skill-issue/tree/main/skills/trust-me-bro

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-paranoidandroid2124-sounds-like-a-skill-issue-trust-me-bro
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Trust Me, Bro

Measure the marginal value of one skill. Keep the task and environment fixed;
change only the skill condition.

“Trust me” is not a control condition.

## Design

1. Name one capability claim. Reject vague claims such as "works better."
2. Pin task inputs, repository revision, model, harness, permissions, tools,
   reasoning setting, verifier, and timeout.
3. Select real trigger cases and nearby failures. Start with three to five
   tasks for a smoke trial. Require repeated runs before publishing a
   performance claim.
4. Define conditions:
   - `baseline`: no candidate skill content;
   - `candidate`: the selected skill revision;
   - `previous`: optional prior revision.
5. Read [references/trial-format.md](references/trial-format.md) for the result
   record and blind comparator contract.

## Run

1. Randomize condition order.
2. Use a fresh context for each task-condition-trial. Do not let baseline
   workers discover the candidate skill or prior conclusions.
3. Give every worker the same task-local context, tools, permissions, and
   budget. Give only candidate workers the candidate skill.
4. Capture raw outputs, diffs, logs, timings, token counts when available, and
   user interventions. Do not grade from worker self-reports.
5. Prevent live external writes unless the user explicitly authorizes the
   exact target. Prefer fixtures, sandboxes, or drafts.

## Judge

1. Use deterministic acceptance checks first.
2. For subjective output, anonymize and randomize artifacts before giving
   them to a fresh comparator. The comparator receives the original task and
   rubric, but no condition labels, expected winner, or implementer analysis.
3. Record failures as well as successes. Do not repair candidate output before
   grading it.
4. Aggregate JSONL results with:

   ```bash
   node scripts/summarize-trials.mjs results.jsonl
   node scripts/summarize-trials.mjs results.jsonl --reference previous --comparison candidate
   ```

## Decide

- Keep when the gain or risk reduction justifies instruction, token, latency,
  and intervention cost.
- Trim and rerun when only part of the skill appears causal.
- Delete or disable when baseline is equal and cheaper.
- Block release when the candidate introduces a safety or correctness
  regression.

One run can catch a bug; it cannot establish a stable uplift. State sample
size and uncertainty without manufacturing statistical confidence.

## Return

Return the pinned configuration, task matrix, condition-level results, paired
improvements/regressions, cost delta, raw artifact locations, decision, and
known limits. Never market a smoke test as a benchmark.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [paranoidandroid2124](https://github.com/paranoidandroid2124)
- **Source:** [paranoidandroid2124/sounds-like-a-skill-issue](https://github.com/paranoidandroid2124/sounds-like-a-skill-issue)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-paranoidandroid2124-sounds-like-a-skill-issue-trust-me-bro
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/paranoidandroid2124
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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