Quiet Feed Empty Feed Skill
Helps agents inspect an Atom feed that currently has no articles.
The skill is a static Atom-feed index and reference set: it executes no commands, requests no credentials, changes no system state, and identifies its source while stating that full content was not scraped. This supports least privilege and basic data-flow transparency. Points are deducted because sensitive-data handling, user confirmation, source validation, and rollback guidance are absent.
SKILL.md, all_articles.md, and index.md consistently describe the Quiet Feed, Atom format, and zero articles, making the empty-feed path internally coherent. Points are deducted because there are no execution steps, input validation, exception handling, or diagnostic failure messages. Static review cannot verify runtime behavior, so the score remains at or below the 10-point static ceiling.
The name and trigger text clearly target an empty RSS golden-build test, so the artifact fits that narrow fixture scenario. Points are deducted because the body also claims support for finding articles, topics, authors, and recent updates despite containing no articles; non-fit boundaries, semantic trigger limits, and Chinese-user usage are not defined.
The artifact has a readable structure with metadata, use guidance, statistics, navigation, and reference files; repository context supplies an MIT license and author information. Points are deducted for missing versioning, changelog, maintenance ownership, installation notes, examples, and troubleshooting, plus a positioning mismatch between a golden test fixture and content-retrieval guidance.
As an empty-RSS golden-build output, it directly records zero articles, Atom format, and the expected reference structure, providing limited usable value. Points are deducted because it cannot perform the article lookup, topic reference, or author-analysis tasks stated in the usage section, and no meaningful advantage over manual handling is demonstrated.
The three selected files cross-confirm the source URL, Atom type, empty article list, and statistics. Points are deducted because there is no third-party execution evidence, committed test result, or independent reproduction record; the assessment relies primarily on internal repository artifacts, so static review does not justify more than 5 points.
- Do not treat this as a live RSS content-retrieval skill; it explicitly contains no articles and no full scraped content.
- Golden_Rss_Empty appears to be a test fixture rather than a production skill; confirm the invocation context and expected output.
- The source is an example.com URL, so this artifact does not establish real source content or live reachability.
What it does & when to use it
This Agent Skill is a test fixture for an empty RSS/Atom feed build. It describes Quiet Feed, an Atom feed at example.com/quiet with no articles, categories, or authors. The skill defines possible lookup and review scenarios, but the current dataset contains no content to retrieve. It also points users to all_articles.md and index.md reference files.
Provides Quiet Feed metadata, including its title, Atom type, website, and description; records zero articles, categories, and authors; states that full content was not scraped; and directs users to references/all_articles.md and references/index.md.
- Testers validating an empty RSS/Atom feed build
- Developers checking agent behavior when a feed has no entries
- Maintainers verifying feed metadata and reference-file navigation
- Users testing article, topic, and author lookup flows against an empty dataset
Pros & cons
- Useful for testing empty RSS/Atom data handling
- Clearly records zero articles, categories, and authors
- Includes reference-file navigation
- Uses standard name and description frontmatter fields
- Contains no actual article content
- Cannot provide real topics, authors, or recent updates
- Does not document a specific installation directory, client scope, or automated execution flow
- Shows no executable scripts or automation commands in SKILL.md
How to install
Copy the folder containing SKILL.md into the skills directory of an Agent Skills-compatible client. The source does not specify a client-specific directory or installation command.
How to use
Invoke golden-rss-empty in a compatible client, or ask: “Use the Quiet Feed skill to inspect this empty Atom feed.” The expected result is a report that Quiet Feed contains no articles, with pointers to references/all_articles.md and references/index.md.