improve

improve is a skill for Claude Code from assafkip/kipi-system. It costs 98 tokens per session (735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review skill for comparing an outside idea, such as a post, tip, transcript, or video summary, with the system’s existing rules and lessons.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks whether the idea can become a concrete system change, consults the cited lessons or files, and returns a grounded adopt-or-skip assessment.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether the idea changes how the system works or is already covered, before adding new rules or processes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kipi-core plugin — 10 skills, 7 commands shipped together

Good fit It checks whether the idea can become a concrete system change, consults the cited lessons or files, and returns a grounded adopt-or-skip assessment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/assafkip/kipi-system/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 assafkip/kipi-system --skill improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/assafkip/kipi-system

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kipi-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 7 commands.

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 improve

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/assafkip/kipi-system/improve.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/assafkip/kipi-system/improve)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/assafkip/kipi-system/improve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/assafkip/kipi-system/improve.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 735 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00098 $0.00735
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00073

Measured 4d ago against content hash bbf6997439bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/improve_ground.py, scripts/test_improve_ground.py), 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/kipi-core/skills/improve/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Improve: an outside idea, judged against the system that exists

Plan item 2d of the morning-brief overhaul (Bloom's improve pass). The founder pastes an idea. This skill answers one question: does it change how the SYSTEM works, and is that change already here?

The two halves

  1. Deterministic (this skill must run it, never reason from memory):

    python3 plugins/kipi-core/skills/improve/scripts/improve_ground.py --target <rule|lint|hook|trigger|context|skill|prompt|test|script|job> "<idea in one sentence>"
    

    It prints a JSON verdict with cites (lessons paths or named files) and a corpora report saying which lessons directories were read, missing or unreadable. Exit 0 for already-built / adopt, 2 for skip. Set KIPI_LESSONS_CORPORA=/path/one:/path/two to ground against more than this instance's corpus; the report names each one either way.

  2. Judgment (the skill): read what the script cited. Then write the critique in this shape:

    • The idea, in one sentence, as a SYSTEM change (a stage, a trigger, a rule, a context entry). If it cannot be phrased that way it is roadmap, and the verdict is skip regardless of how good the idea is.
    • What already exists: the cited file or lesson, opened, with the line that covers it. Not "we have something like that".
    • Verdict: already-built (name the file), adopt (name the smallest change and the check that would prove it), or skip (name the reason the classifier gave).

Hard constraint

This skill fixes the system. It never decides the roadmap. An idea about what to build, sell, price, publish or advise a client returns skip from the script (roadmap_scope.py, fail-closed on unknown) and the skill does not override that with judgment. If the founder wants the product conversation, that is a conversation, not this skill.

Do not

  • Cite from memory. If the script's cites is empty the verdict is not a verdict; say so.
  • Widen the trigger. This is on-demand only; it never rides the brief or the weekly pass.
  • Read a corpus the report says is missing. Say it is missing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 56 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A bbf6997439bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository assafkip/kipi-system (109 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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