Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ashishpatill/tell-proof. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashishpatill/tell-proof/master/.cursor/skills/tell-recursive-improve/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashishpatill/tell-proofWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ashishpatill/tell-proof/tell-recursive-improve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ashishpatill/tell-proof/tell-recursive-improve.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00081 | $0.00919 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00368 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00184 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00092 |
Grade A, and why
tell-recursive-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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tell recursive improve (champion → challenger → learnings)
Compounding loop. Each session must leave one durable lesson and one measurable win. Do not brainlessly re-shoot the same nav strip and call it proof.
Harness
| Gate | Fail if |
|---|---|
| Eye — showcase | Preview shows sticky nav + truncated type; empty right gutter; ghosted labels |
| Eye — template | Best craft moment (figure / inverse / claim) not visible in posted shots |
| Eye — measured contrast | pnpm eye:shell red, or chrome text looks "fine" only in a vision caption (vision ≠ WCAG) |
| Critique | Matrix or target brief score regresses |
| Basics | assertBasics red |
Pass bar for showcase shots: the frame must include a primary craft beat (hero claim with figure start, or product plate, or inverse proof) — not chrome alone.
Pass bar for shell/chrome: run pnpm eye:shell (Playwright samples computed colors). Do not ship sidebar/rail changes on agent vision alone - captions miss ghost contrast (chrome:rail-ghost-contrast).
Loop (one cycle)
- Load learnings — read
research/LEARNINGS.mdbefore editing. - Name the failure — one sentence (e.g. "index thumbs are 88px tall at scale 0.2 → only nav visible").
- Champion — current committed behavior.
- Challenger — smallest change that targets that failure (one surface: preview crop, gallery UI, or one siteKind).
- Eval — Playwright eye on
/showcase+ offering;pnpm research:critiqueif engine touched; typecheck. - Promote or revert — keep only if eye + critique clear.
- Write the lesson — append to
research/LEARNINGS.mdwith pattern key + anti-pattern. - Screenshot contract — post gallery + at least one mid-page craft beat (or cinema reel frame), never nav-only.
Pattern keys (examples)
showcase:preview-gutter— fixed iframe scale left dead stripshowcase:nav-only-thumb— short crop at y=0template:label-under-claim— absolute overfigure under typetemplate:sitekind-css-dead— siteKind rules trapped in wrong lean branchtemplate:skill-metadata-only— skills listed in routedSkills/hints but not hard-gated; requireassertSkillWiring+ RESEARCH_GATE.md every agency 2-buildchrome:rail-ghost-contrast— paper sidebar using dark-theme light text; requirepnpm eye:shell
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 70 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A df66f3299ffb
tell-recursive-improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (2 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 919 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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