simmer-generator

simmer-generator is a skill for Claude Code from 2389-research/simmer. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,705 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A subskill that improves an existing artifact or workspace using feedback from a previous review. It makes a focused revision rather than starting over.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise single files or workspaces according to judging criteria and targeted feedback; it is normally called by the Simmer workflow rather than directly.
Why use it?
It gives an iterative process a dedicated step for applying the most important criticism while preserving parts that already work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the simmer plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps revise single files or workspaces according to judging criteria and targeted feedback; it is normally called by the Simmer workflow rather than directly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/2389-research/simmer/simmer-generator
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 2389-research/simmer --skill simmer-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/2389-research/simmer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install simmer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,705 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 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01705
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00852
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00170

Measured 9d ago against content hash e88c65fbad70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simmer-generator 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 9d 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.

skills/simmer-generator/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simmer Generator

Produce an improved version of the artifact. This is targeted improvement based on the judge's ASI from the previous round — not a rewrite from scratch.

Context You Receive

  • Current candidate: the full artifact text (single-file) or workspace path (workspace)
  • Criteria rubric: what "better" means (2-3 criteria with descriptions)
  • ASI: the highest-leverage direction to pursue (from previous judge round)
  • Iteration number: which round this is
  • Artifact type: single-file or workspace
  • Background (optional): constraints, available resources, domain knowledge
  • Panel deliberation summary (optional, if judge board enabled): what the judge panel concluded last round — WORKING elements to preserve, NOT WORKING approaches to avoid, DIRECTION for this iteration. Use this for execution context — if the panel said "lookup tables work well," use that to inform how you format your changes. Do NOT use it to decide what to change — that's the ASI's job.

You do NOT receive score history or previous candidates. This is intentional — work from the ASI, not from scores. Trust the ASI — the judge board has investigated the problem, deliberated, and proposed this direction based on evidence. Execute it skillfully.

What To Do

Seedless Iteration 1

If ASI says "First iteration — generate initial candidate":

  • You are creating the seed artifact from a description
  • Read the criteria carefully — they define what good looks like
  • Produce a solid first draft that addresses all criteria
  • Don't try to be perfect — the loop will refine it

Single-File Mode

  1. Read the ASI carefully. The judge identified the single highest-leverage fix. Address that specifically.
  2. Do not try to fix everything at once. Focused improvement compounds better than scattered edits. Address the ASI. If you notice other small improvements that don't conflict, fine — but the ASI is your primary target.
  3. Preserve what works. Don't regress on aspects that aren't mentioned in the ASI. If the ASI says "the CTA is too high-friction," don't rewrite the opening paragraph.
  4. Respect the artifact's natural scope. Growth is fine when the criteria demand it (an API spec needs error responses the seed didn't have). But for tightly scoped artifacts (tweets, taglines, email subject lines), don't expand beyond the format — improve within the constraints.
  5. Produce the full improved artifact. Not a diff, not instructions — the complete text. Write it to the file path specified by the orchestrator.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 9d ago First seen · 113 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e88c65fbad70

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simmer-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository 2389-research/simmer (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,705 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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