SkillCheatSheet
throwaway-machine
An AI agent skill from smol-machines/smolvm, scored 72 out of 100 by code.
Code score by group
It loses the most points in Procedure (12), the group that checks whether the steps are numbered, read the context first and say what to do when something fails.
What the author says it does
Runs untrusted code in a throwaway smolvm microVM against a repo it must not modify, with no network unless explicitly granted, and collects artifacts from a writable output directory. Use when executing an agent's generated script, a pull request's test suite, or any code that should not be trusted with the host; when a workload needs egress granted one host at a time; or when a run has to be cancelled, because Ctrl-C on the wrapper script leaves the VM running, and on releases before v1.20.2 so does Ctrl-C on the CLI. Do not use it for a development environment that is re-entered across ses…
This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.
- Repository
- smol-machines/smolvm
- Folder
- docs/throwaway-machine
- License
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 7,092
- SKILL.md lines
- 382
- Other files
- 9
Add throwaway-machine to your agent
npx skills add smol-machines/smolvm --skill throwaway-machineThe 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.