skill-evolver

skill-evolver is a skill for Claude Code from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching and improving an existing coding-agent skill, including its instructions and supporting resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps diagnose a skill, plan an improvement round, preserve useful behavior, and pass selected edits to the skill-building workflow.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a real skill problem from a problem in its inputs or surrounding workflow, and keeps evidence tied to the proposed change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps diagnose a skill, plan an improvement round, preserve useful behavior, and pass selected edits to the skill-building workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/skill-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 skill-evolver
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin skill-evolver — /plugin install skill-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.

agentmods badge for skill-evolver

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,987 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 $0.00056 $0.01987
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00795
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00199

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1a5fb0cf09ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-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 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.

skill-evolver/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Daymade Skill Evolver

Orchestrate a research-driven improvement round for a named existing Skill through the current specialist Skills. Keep the original result, stage inputs, dependencies and returned evidence bound together. An unchanged Skill is a valid outcome when the evidence supports keeping it.

Keep orchestration here; execute specialist work through its current owner. Skill Creator makes and validates selected changes; it does not choose this round's business goal or research plan. When the request is diagnosis-only, remain read-only.

Resolve the target and result

Resolve the named Skill to its authoritative repository or project source, current release identity, and actual loaded entry when relevant. Read its entry and the resources used by the affected jobs. Distinguish source, installed copies and host consumption; do not edit a cache as if it were the owner.

State the user-visible result, the observation that could disprove it, supported jobs to preserve, authorized deliverables, and stopping condition before selecting improvements. Include the original reported failure. Do not replace it with a research report, a shorter prompt, a score, or green checks. Ask only for missing information or a user-owned choice that changes the work; reuse existing answers and authorization.

Keep the outcome criterion stable while comparing candidates. Correct a proxy against the original requirement before accepting an improvement; do not move the goal to whichever output the candidate already produces.

Gather evidence that can change a decision

Start with current implementation, project decisions, existing tools/Skills, provided examples, and previously verified work. Reuse evidence whose source and conditions still apply under the current owner's contract. Before executing a selected stage, load stage handoffs and follow its applicable owner route; this reference specifies inputs and returned results, not a second specialist procedure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 6d ago First seen · 184 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 1a5fb0cf09ea

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skill-evolver is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,473 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,987 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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