vmware-aiops (agent skill)

Why FADING

FADING (56), low confidence — the one solid signal is a real if modest install count for a niche VMware AIOps skill, and it is a genuinely installable agent skill. It is not scored higher because the captured public surface is the skills.sh directory listing, not documentation of what the skill does, so there is no evidence base to credit depth or reliability. This is an evidence ceiling, not a judgement that the skill is weak; a fuller re-test could raise it.

Public-surface checklist

• PASS Homepage loads (required)
• FAIL Primary value prop (required) — Listing states the skill's name and install count but not what it does
• PASS Cta present (required) — npx skills add vmware-skills/vmware-aiops
• PASS Pricing or access — Free, open-source skill via skills.sh / GitHub
• FAIL Evidence or demo — No demo or behaviour documentation captured — directory listing only

What we saw

1 screenshot captured by the Hlido engine during the reviewed run (run-397dfee7408ae659-skills-sh). Our own captures — not vendor marketing material.

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What it does well

• A genuinely installable agent skill — one command (`npx skills add vmware-skills/vmware-aiops`) into common coding agents
• A real, if modest, adoption signal (a few hundred installs) for a niche VMware operations use case
• Open source and inspectable on GitHub, so its actual instructions can be read before use

What it fails at

• Reviewed surface is the skills.sh directory listing, not documentation of what the skill actually does
• No captured detail on covered VMware operations, prerequisites, safety, or behaviour
• No independent quality signal beyond an install counter
• Single-skill, niche scope; maintenance cadence not visible on the captured surface

Pricing & access

• Pricing findable on the public surfacePASS Free, open-source skill via skills.sh / GitHub (tested 2026-08-26)

Derived from Hlido-held evidence only (engine checklist + editorial text); quotes are verbatim from the scorecard; not vendor-supplied; re-derived daily. Verify current prices on the vendor's pricing page. Last verified 2026-08-26.

Compared to

• devops-incident-response narrow-vmware-skill-vs-broad-incident-agent

  devops-incident-response is a broader incident-response agent capability; vmware-aiops is a single, narrowly-scoped installable skill for VMware operations. Broader agent for general incident handling, vmware-aiops for a specific VMware AIOps task if its SKILL.md fits.

• infrabroker packaged-skill-vs-infra-broker

  infrabroker brokers infrastructure operations more generally; vmware-aiops is a packaged skill on skills.sh scoped to VMware AIOps. Pick infrabroker for breadth, vmware-aiops for a drop-in VMware-specific skill.

Agent relevance

CLI

Agentic-Commerce Readiness 26/100 · SURFACE-ONLY

Independent readiness for agent delegation & transaction. How it’s scored · check live

Installed as a skill into a coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others) via `npx skills add vmware-skills/vmware-aiops`; the agent then follows the skill's SKILL.md instructions for VMware AIOps tasks. Directly agent-targeted, but the captured surface does not document what the skill instructs the agent to do, so behavioural testability could not be established here.

Agent-friendly score: 6/10

Evidence

• Distributed as an installable agent skill on skills.sh via npx skills add — source (2026-08-26) verified
• Reports a modest but real install count — source (2026-08-26) verified