evolve

evolve is a command for Claude Code from joneqian/claude-skills-suite. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,165 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of evolve, MIT.

A command that groups related learned “instincts”—small notes about repeated coding preferences or actions—into commands, skills, or agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review possible groupings, limit the review to a domain such as testing, preview changes, or create the resulting structures.
Why use it?
It helps turn many separate observations into reusable higher-level instructions instead of leaving them as disconnected notes.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to review possible groupings, limit the review to a domain such as testing, preview changes, or create the resulting structures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/joneqian/claude-skills-suite/evolve
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joneqian/claude-skills-suite

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,165 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00013 $0.01165
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00117

Measured 8d ago against content hash 88ece7568f8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evolve 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 8d ago.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to evolve — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/continuous-learning-v2/commands/evolve.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evolve Command

Implementation

python3 ~/.claude/skills/continuous-learning-v2/scripts/instinct-cli.py evolve [--generate]

Analyzes instincts and clusters related ones into higher-level structures:

  • Commands: When instincts describe user-invoked actions
  • Skills: When instincts describe auto-triggered behaviors
  • Agents: When instincts describe complex, multi-step processes

Usage

/evolve                    # Analyze all instincts and suggest evolutions
/evolve --domain testing   # Only evolve instincts in testing domain
/evolve --dry-run          # Show what would be created without creating
/evolve --threshold 5      # Require 5+ related instincts to cluster

Evolution Rules

→ Command (User-Invoked)

When instincts describe actions a user would explicitly request:

  • Multiple instincts about "when user asks to..."
  • Instincts with triggers like "when creating a new X"
  • Instincts that follow a repeatable sequence

Example:

  • new-table-step1: "when adding a database table, create migration"
  • new-table-step2: "when adding a database table, update schema"
  • new-table-step3: "when adding a database table, regenerate types"

→ Creates: /new-table command

→ Skill (Auto-Triggered)

When instincts describe behaviors that should happen automatically:

  • Pattern-matching triggers
  • Error handling responses
  • Code style enforcement

Example:

  • prefer-functional: "when writing functions, prefer functional style"
  • use-immutable: "when modifying state, use immutable patterns"
  • avoid-classes: "when designing modules, avoid class-based design"

→ Creates: functional-patterns skill

→ Agent (Needs Depth/Isolation)

When instincts describe complex, multi-step processes that benefit from isolation:

  • Debugging workflows
  • Refactoring sequences
  • Research tasks

Example:

  • debug-step1: "when debugging, first check logs"
  • debug-step2: "when debugging, isolate the failing component"
  • debug-step3: "when debugging, create minimal reproduction"
  • debug-step4: "when debugging, verify fix with test"

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 8d ago First seen · 187 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 88ece7568f8f

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evolve is a command published in the GitHub repository joneqian/claude-skills-suite (32 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,165 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to evolve, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.