skill-improve

skill-improve is a skill for Claude Code from bullish0x/GameStudio. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,182 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-improve, MIT.

A test-and-revision process for improving a coding-agent skill file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a skill gives unreliable results or needs better structure and behavior.
Why use it?
It checks the skill, suggests focused changes, and compares the results so weak changes can be rejected.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when a skill gives unreliable results or needs better structure and behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bullish0x/gamestudio/skill-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 bullish0x/GameStudio --skill skill-improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bullish0x/GameStudio

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,182 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 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.01182
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00591
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00118

Measured 5d ago against content hash 055c7a47f186, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to skill-improve — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/skill-improve/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Improve

Runs an improvement loop on a single skill: test → fix → retest → keep or revert.


Phase 1: Parse Argument

Read the skill name from the first argument. If missing, output usage and stop:

Usage: /skill-improve [skill-name]
Example: /skill-improve tech-debt

Verify .agents/skills/[name]/SKILL.md exists. If not, stop with: "Skill '[name]' not found."


Phase 2: Baseline Test

Run /skill-test static [name] and record the baseline score:

  • Count of FAILs
  • Count of WARNs
  • Which specific checks failed (Check 1–7)

Display to the user:

Static baseline:   [N] failures, [M] warnings
Failing: Check 4 (no ask-before-write), Check 5 (no handoff)

If baseline is 0 FAILs and 0 WARNs, note it and proceed to Phase 2b.

Phase 2b: Category Baseline

Look up the skill's category: field in GameStudio Skill Testing Framework/catalog.yaml.

If no category: field is found, display: "Category: not yet assigned — skipping category checks." and skip to Phase 3.

If category is found, run /skill-test category [name] and record the category baseline:

  • Count of FAILs
  • Count of WARNs
  • Which specific category rubric metrics failed

Display to the user:

Category baseline: [N] failures, [M] warnings  ([category] rubric)

If BOTH static and category baselines are 0 FAILs and 0 WARNs, stop: "This skill already passes all static and category checks. No improvements needed."


Phase 3: Diagnose

Read the full skill file at .agents/skills/[name]/SKILL.md.

For each failing or warning static check, identify the exact gap:

  • Check 1 fail → which frontmatter field is missing
  • Check 2 fail → how many phases found vs. minimum required
  • Check 3 fail → no verdict keywords anywhere in the skill body
  • Check 4 fail → Write or Edit in allowed-tools but no ask-before-write language
  • Check 5 warn → no follow-up or next-step section at the end
  • Check 6 warncontext: fork set but fewer than 5 phases found
  • Check 7 warn → argument-hint is empty or doesn't match documented modes

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 5d ago First seen · 145 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 055c7a47f186

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skill-improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository bullish0x/GameStudio (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,182 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to skill-improve, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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