05-improve

05-improve is a skill for Claude Code from ai-driven-dev/framework. It costs 48 tokens per session (337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation-improvement workflow that reads a complete conversation, measures visible waste, and recommends small changes. It can also identify which files or instructions should be revised.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review one conversation or compare separate areas of work, choose targeted revisions, and produce an executable prompt for the next change.
Why use it?
It helps find unnecessary time, token use, or unclear steps without guessing from an incomplete record or editing files automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the aidd-refine plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review one conversation or compare separate areas of work, choose targeted revisions, and produce an executable prompt for the next change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-driven-dev/framework/05-improve
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 ai-driven-dev/framework --skill 05-improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-driven-dev/framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aidd-refine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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 05-improve

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 337 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 $0.00048 $0.00337
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00135
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured 21d ago against content hash 6f835da50754, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

05-improve 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 21d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (assets/report.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/aidd-refine/skills/05-improve/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Improve

flowchart LR
  start([conversation ID or export]) --> read-conversation
  read-conversation -->|complete| scopes{two or more scopes?}
  read-conversation -->|unavailable| unavailable([stop])
  scopes -->|no| recommend-local[recommend locally] --> target-edits
  scopes -->|yes| isolation{isolated artifact context?}
  isolation -->|yes| recommend-parallel[recommend in parallel] --> target-edits
  isolation -->|no| recommend-local
  target-edits --> question([ask next intent]) --> stop([stop])

Actions

Run the flow above. Read only the next action file.

Action Does
read-conversation freeze complete evidence and measure visible cost
recommend analyze relevant scopes and merge grounded findings
target-edits render minimal edits and an executable prompt

Transversal rules

  • After resolving the source, run all three actions without pausing for confirmation.
  • Analyze only a complete conversation and the exact skills or documents it names.
  • Exclude every current or previous improve invocation and report from the analysis evidence.
  • Never invent time, tokens, source coverage, or document status.
  • Do not modify, stage, or persist any project file.
Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md 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.

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. 21d ago First seen · 37 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 6f835da50754

Subscribe to this mod's changes

05-improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-driven-dev/framework (518 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 337 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-25.

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