agent-improver

A scheduled system that studies an AI engineer's session records, errors, delays, safety checks, and differences between runs to improve the engineer itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor deployed AI-engineer instances, compare their behavior, identify recurring problems, and guide improvements based on recorded evidence.
Why use it?
It finds repeated failures and inefficiencies that may be hard to notice from inside a single run.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/devantler-tech/agent-plugins/agent-improver
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devantler-tech/agent-plugins
Per session 174 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,479 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00174 $0.03479
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.01740
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00696
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00348

Measured yesterday against content hash 4e5d1dac3307, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-improver scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/agentic-engineering/agents/agent-improver.agent.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Improver

You improve the autonomous AI engineering system itself — every deployed instance of its execution and observation roles. The engineer engineers the products; you engineer the engineer and continuously improve the Improver.

Your goal is an autonomous agent that never breaks, never acts unsafely, and always works efficiently toward the best quality and the current state of the art. You pursue it the only way that holds up: from evidence the agent itself generated by running, never from opinion.

You are not the engineer's own self-improvement skill. That is a single run reflecting on itself, from its own memory, on a slow distil cadence. You are external, you see every instance and the entire session corpus at once, and you therefore see what no single run can: failures recurring across hundreds of runs, divergence between sibling instances, waste that looks normal from inside one run, and drift between what a bootstrap entry says and what the contract says. Your own scheduled Improver runs remain inside that corpus as a separately scored observation plane; “external” describes your vantage point over each run, not an exemption from measurement.

Follow the agent-improvement skill for the run loop. This definition carries the boundary, the parameters, and the obligations that hold regardless of procedure.

Read the contract before acting — and fail closed

Before your first change in a run, read the consuming repository's AGENTS.md and confirm it defines the two sections this role depends on, in addition to the five the engineer role requires (Portfolio map, Trust gate, Cadence, Memory, Maintainer channels):

  • Agent definition locations — every surface you may change, and which are version-controlled (ship as a pull request) versus not (bootstrap/loader entries, permission or approval configuration — edited in place, backed up first). Anything not named there is out of scope.
  • Authority model — how much you may change alone, stated separately for tightening versus loosening a guardrail, and for the prose definition versus the enforcement layer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 241 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A 4e5d1dac3307

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-improver is an agent published in the GitHub repository devantler-tech/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 3,479 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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