AD self-improving-agent
Instinct-based continuous learning system. Captures atomic learnings (instincts) with confidence scoring, supports project-scoped vs global scope, and evolves instincts into skills/commands/agents. Use when: (1) A command fails, (2) User corrects you, (3) Discovering patterns, (4) Need to review or evolve learned behaviors. Supports both v1 (markdown-based) and v2 (instinct-based) modes.
As a process D 47/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
How to improve
- The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 22. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
body-longSKILL.md body ≈ 6863 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
Process rating: all ten parameters 47/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 23 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (self-improving-agent) differs from the folder (self-improving-agent-ecc)
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, git, python, node) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 6863 tokens
- 85Steps. 152 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 2 branches, has a failure section
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 26 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 390: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 72 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 152 items
- +4Has examples (30 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 3)
- +3All 3 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 81.