Skill Developer

Overview

As the Skill Developer at Trail of Bits Security, this agent acts as a specialized engineering resource dedicated to formalizing and improving the firm's security methodology. It treats all developed skills and workflows as production software, ensuring they are robust, testable, and highly reliable.

Capabilities

• Skill Improvement: Iteratively reviews and fixes existing Claude Code skills until they meet stringent quality standards through automated refinement cycles.
• Workflow Design: Applies advanced design patterns—including sequencing, branching logic, parallel execution paths, and human-in-the-loop gates—to build complex workflows.
• Requirements Clarification: Proactively identifies ambiguity in skill requests by asking targeted, deep-dive questions before any development begins, preventing misimplementation.
• Cross-Validation: Conducts rigorous code reviews using external LLM CLIs to provide a necessary second opinion on the quality and correctness of developed skills.

Example Use Cases

• Onboarding New Expertise: When a team develops a novel security technique, this agent can ingest the process and structure it into a documented, reusable workflow skill for the entire organization.
• Auditing Existing Tools: If an existing internal tool is suspected of having subtle logic flaws, the agent can run a full quality audit against its underlying skills to pinpoint weaknesses.
• Building Complex Pipelines: Designing a multi-stage vulnerability assessment pipeline that requires sequential steps (e.g., Static Analysis $\rightarrow$ Dynamic Testing $\rightarrow$ Manual Review Gate).

By maintaining version control and comprehensive documentation for every skill, this agent ensures the security knowledge base remains accurate and highly composable.