self-improving

self-improving is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers. It costs 101 tokens per session (2,108 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Self-Improving + Proactive Agent, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for an agent to examine its own work, record lessons, and use past corrections to improve future work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps set up organized memory, log corrections, review completed work, and maintain project- or topic-specific notes.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful learning across tasks and respond systematically when commands fail, users correct mistakes, or knowledge changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; built for openclaw.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudchef/atlasclaw-providers/self-improving
Any agent
npx skills add CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers --skill self-improving
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 self-improving

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cloudchef/atlasclaw-providers/self-improving"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cloudchef/atlasclaw-providers/self-improving.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,108 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% 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 $0.00101 $0.02108
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01054
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00211

Measured 6d ago against content hash ac76f9e38385, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-improving 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 6d 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

94% identical to Self-Improving + Proactive Agent — 2 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.

skills/self-improving/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

User corrects you or points out mistakes. You complete significant work and want to evaluate the outcome. You notice something in your own output that could be better. Knowledge should compound over time without manual maintenance.

Architecture

Memory lives in ~/self-improving/ with tiered structure. If ~/self-improving/ does not exist, run setup.md. Workspace setup should add the standard self-improving steering to the workspace AGENTS, SOUL, and HEARTBEAT.md files, with recurring maintenance routed through heartbeat-rules.md.

~/self-improving/
├── memory.md          # HOT: ≤100 lines, always loaded
├── index.md           # Topic index with line counts
├── heartbeat-state.md # Heartbeat state: last run, reviewed change, action notes
├── projects/          # Per-project learnings
├── domains/           # Domain-specific (code, writing, comms)
├── archive/           # COLD: decayed patterns
└── corrections.md     # Last 50 corrections log

Quick Reference

Topic File
Setup guide setup.md
Heartbeat state template heartbeat-state.md
Memory template memory-template.md
Workspace heartbeat snippet HEARTBEAT.md
Heartbeat rules heartbeat-rules.md
Learning mechanics learning.md
Security boundaries boundaries.md
Scaling rules scaling.md
Memory operations operations.md
Self-reflection log reflections.md
OpenClaw HEARTBEAT seed openclaw-heartbeat.md

Requirements

  • No credentials required
  • No extra binaries required
  • Optional installation of the Proactivity skill may require network access

Learning Signals

Log automatically when you notice these patterns:

Corrections → add to corrections.md, evaluate for memory.md:

  • "No, that's not right..."
  • "Actually, it should be..."
  • "You're wrong about..."
  • "I prefer X, not Y"
  • "Remember that I always..."
  • "I told you before..."
  • "Stop doing X"
  • "Why do you keep..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

14 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. 6d ago First seen · 251 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A ac76f9e38385

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-improving is a skill published in the GitHub repository CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers (15 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,108 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to Self-Improving + Proactive Agent, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.