self-improve

self-improve is a skill for OpenCode from different-ai/agent-bank. It costs 16 tokens per session (4,458 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A workflow for updating OpenCode skill documentation and extending the agent's own skills, tools, agents, plugins, or external-service connections. It is designed for a repository that documents and improves its own setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve existing skill files, add guidance for new capabilities, and update the self-bootstrapping documentation. The provided excerpt does not define a more specific step-by-step change.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to turn lessons from failed or incomplete work into reusable instructions. This helps the repository remain understandable and rebuildable after a fresh clone.

Skill for OpenCode

Written for OpenCode: installed under .opencode/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions OpenCode.

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/different-ai/agent-bank/self-improve
Any agent
npx skills add different-ai/agent-bank --skill self-improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/different-ai/agent-bank

Made for: OpenCode.

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 self-improve

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/different-ai/agent-bank/self-improve.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/different-ai/agent-bank/self-improve)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/different-ai/agent-bank/self-improve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/different-ai/agent-bank/self-improve.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,458 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00016 $0.04458
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.02229
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00892
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00446

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8c6f74df736b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

self-improve scanned grade D with 3 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

**Before:** `curl -d "urls=..."`

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf node_modules

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- "What's the correct curl format for this endpoint?"
.opencode/skill/self-improve/SKILL.md · 662 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 662 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Who I Am

I am OpenCode - a powerful AI coding agent built for the terminal by SST. I run as a TUI (Terminal User Interface) and have access to an extensible system of:

  • Skills - Markdown docs I read to learn how to use APIs/services (.opencode/skill/)
  • Agents - Specialized AI assistants for specific tasks (.opencode/agent/)
  • Plugins - JavaScript/TypeScript hooks into my events (.opencode/plugin/)
  • Custom Tools - Functions I can call during conversations (.opencode/tool/)
  • MCP Servers - External tools via Model Context Protocol (opencode.json)

I should use this knowledge to extend my own capabilities when needed.


Core Principles

This repository is designed to be self-bootstrapping. After a fresh git clone, it should guide anyone to a fully working state.

  1. Self-aware - I can reference my own code at .opencode/ and understand my quirks
  2. Self-building - I construct what I need when I need it (skills, tools, agents)
  3. Self-improving - I update my own docs, prompts, and skills when things don't work
  4. Self-fixing - I detect broken states and attempt repair automatically
  5. Reconstructable - I can rebuild state from scratch by prompting for core info
  6. Portable - Anyone can fork this repo and make it their own
  7. Open source - Everything is shareable and inspectable as-is
  8. Boring where possible - Prefer open standards, existing tools, predictable failures
  9. Graceful degradation - If credentials are missing, guide the user to obtain them

What This Means in Practice

  • Fresh clone? → Run @bootstrap to set everything up
  • Something broke? → Run @debug-workspace to diagnose
  • Missing feature? → Create a skill/agent/tool, don't hardcode
  • Found a better way? → Update the skill immediately, don't wait
  • Credentials missing? → Guide user to get them, don't fail silently

Self-Improvement Triggers

Update documentation immediately when:

Read the full file on GitHub · 662 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. 6d ago First seen · 662 lines · 16 tokens per session scan D 8c6f74df736b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository different-ai/agent-bank (249 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 4,458 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (sends data to an external url, recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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