evolve

evolve is a command for coding agents from Michael-OvO/obsidian-knowledge-agent. It costs 13 tokens per session (210 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for reviewing proposed changes to the agent's learned rules before accepting them. It shows the changes, explains what prompted them, and checks them against higher-priority rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect, approve, edit, discard, and commit proposed updates to learned conventions, examples, and skills.
Why use it?
It prevents unreviewed or conflicting changes from becoming part of the agent's working rules.

Command

Part of the obsidian-knowledge plugin — 1 skill, 12 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

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 commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/evolve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Michael-OvO/obsidian-knowledge-agent

Or install obsidian-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 12 commands, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for evolve

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/evolve.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/evolve)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/evolve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/evolve.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 210 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 $0.00013 $0.00210
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00021

Measured 3d ago against content hash 64fd6687c5bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

plugins/obsidian-knowledge/commands/evolve.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Show me the pending self-evolution changes and walk me through approving them.

  1. Run git --no-pager diff -- .agents/learned/ to surface proposed changes to conventions.md, examples.md, and skills/.
  2. For each change, summarize it in one line and cite the journal.md entry that motivated it (read the latest entries for context).
  3. Check it against rule precedence in .agents/self-evolution.md: a learned rule must not contradict a core rule in .agents/*.md or the user's stated preferences. Flag any that do.
  4. For each: ask whether to keep, edit, or discard.
  5. Commit approved changes with chore(learn): <one-line summary>. Revert discarded ones (git checkout -- <path>). Leave the journal untouched — it is the record.
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. 3d ago First seen · 17 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 64fd6687c5bf

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evolve is a command published in the GitHub repository Michael-OvO/obsidian-knowledge-agent (207 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 210 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.