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An AI agent skill from smol-machines/smolvm, scored 71 out of 100 by code.

71/ 100B

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description19/20
  • Procedure5/15
  • Done criteria4/15
  • Resources8/10
  • Scripts5/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep3/5

It loses the most points in Done criteria (11), the group that checks whether there is a checklist and a step that verifies the work.

What the author says it does

Installs smolvm from a published release and proves the host can actually boot a microVM before any other work starts. Use when setting smolvm up on a new machine, a CI runner or an agent's own environment; when a first boot fails with krun_start_enter -22, KVM_DENIED or "agent did not become ready"; when checking whether a host meets smolvm's requirements at all; or when an install has to be isolated from an existing one and then removed. Do not use it to remove an existing install (see the teardown packet) or for anything after the first boot has succeeded.

This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.

Repository
smol-machines/smolvm
Folder
docs/install
License
Apache-2.0
GitHub stars
7,092
SKILL.md lines
238
Other files
7

Add install to your agent

npx skills add smol-machines/smolvm --skill install

The command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.

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Scores come from a snapshot of 300 public GitHub repositories taken on 12 November 2026. Every score is the result of fixed checks run by code; no AI is involved. How scoring works.