app-evolver

app-evolver is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for improving an existing application using its code, product rules, past work, and evidence from competing products.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify an authorized improvement, carry it through implementation, and verify the result in the application people use.
Why use it?
It keeps research, product decisions, implementation, and checks of the user-visible result connected instead of treating them as separate tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps identify an authorized improvement, carry it through implementation, and verify the result in the application people use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/app-evolver
About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,473 stars · on GitHub

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 daymade/claude-code-skills --skill app-evolver
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin app-evolver — /plugin install app-evolver after adding the marketplace above.

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.

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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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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,677 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 $0.00083 $0.01677
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00671
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00168

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4bf9437175e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-evolver 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.

app-evolver/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Evolver

Improve the application's actual user result. Extract transferable mechanisms, resolve their fit with the current product, implement authorized improvements, and verify them through the application's consuming surface.

Use this as an orchestration Skill. Keep repository engineering, research, history access and release operations with their existing owners. For a Skill target use skill-evolver; for competitor intelligence alone use competitors-analysis; for a new product specification use the available requirements workflow. Do not replace those owners with another execution engine.

1. Bind the application and unfinished result

Before research or edits, establish:

  • Exact application, repository/ref, platform and runtime or deployment identity.
  • Original user request, current product contract and active stage; distinguish long-term positioning from the work selected now.
  • User-visible improvement, falsifiable acceptance evidence, authorized deliverables, protected behavior/data and stopping condition.
  • Analysis-only versus implementation authorization, and any unresolved product choice whose answer changes the outcome.

Reuse earlier user decisions; ask in the current conversation only for missing information or a real unresolved choice. Use the host's question tool when available. State the evidence, alternatives, consequences and recommendation. Do not delegate a user decision through another agent.

For multiple applications, bind each contract and acceptance path separately. A successful design, permission or measurement in one app is an unverified proposal in another. Do not transfer a desktop contract to its mobile sibling without checking the sibling's current contract.

Read repository instructions and relevant domain Skills. Pin the code used for judgment to an immutable ref; inspect current runtime/config separately. Preserve other writers' work and coordinate overlapping ownership before editing. On resume, reconcile the latest request, actual artifacts and unfinished evidence; continue from the first unmet result rather than replaying the original plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago Changed · +15 lines · +8 tokens per session 4bf9437175e1
  2. 6d ago First seen · 150 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 5c79dff8662a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-evolver is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,473 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,677 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 2026-10-12.

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