What is claude-evolve?

A plugin that uses Claude Code models to discover and improve code through an evolutionary process.

Finding code improvements and running evolutionary code-discovery workflows.

It helps explore code and search for possible improvements with repeated model-guided changes.

claude-evolve — Plugin for Claude Code by samuelzxu

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelzxu/claude-evolve

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 4 skills, 1 MCP server cost 79 tokens a session between them.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-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 2mo 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.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 20 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "claude-evolve",
  "version": "0.4.5",
  "description": "Evolutionary code discovery using Claude Code models",
  "author": {
    "name": "Samuel Xu"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/samuelzxu/claude-evolve",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/samuelzxu/claude-evolve",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "claude-code",
    "plugin",
    "evolution",
    "optimization",
    "shinka"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/"
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 4 skills, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 79 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

marketplace.json 926 B

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.

2mo ago First seen · 20 lines scan A 81324e1afd7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-evolve is a plugin published in the GitHub repository samuelzxu/claude-evolve (17 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-01.

Building agents

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