improve-skill

improve-skill is a skill for Claude Code from fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins. It costs 226 tokens per session (2,502 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A complete process for improving an existing coding skill using research, planning, implementation, tests, and blinded comparisons with the original version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study a skill, research better practices, build an improved plugin, create evaluations, compare old and new results without revealing which is which, and document the shipped version.
Why use it?
It turns user feedback and outside research into a documented improvement process, while checking whether the new skill actually performs better.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the improve-skill plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/improve-skill
Any agent
npx skills add fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins --skill improve-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install improve-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 improve-skill

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/improve-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/improve-skill.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 226 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,502 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00226 $0.02502
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.01251
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00500
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00250

Measured 5d ago against content hash c1486157b655, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-skill 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.

plugins/improve-skill/skills/improve-skill/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

improve-skill

Take a skill that exists, learn everything about why it is the way it is, research what the world has learned since it was written, rebuild it better, and prove the rebuild — with evals the original is scored on too, and blind judges who don't know which output came from which version. Then ship it like a product: named by the user, iconed through the full design pipeline, documented for a non-technical reader, pushed.

The pipeline is long. Its honesty rules are what make it worth running: research is read in full and citation-verified, judges never see the skill or know which take is which, losing takes stay on the audit sheet, and a finding becomes a rule in the skill the same day it's confirmed.

Running as a Gemini model? Read gemini.md in this directory first, then follow this file with the overrides it names. Turns this pipeline's stated standards into steps with outputs: filled quota and bound ledgers, a receipt check on the phases that own no exit code, and the banner's two skills chained through files a later step reads. Other models skip it.

Phase 0 — Intake

Gather three things before anything runs:

  1. The source. The skill's repo/directory, its SKILL.md, references, evals, benchmarks, README. Read all of it. If the source repo is third-party (origin not owned by the user), it is read-only evidence — the improved skill is born in this marketplace, and the original gets a genuine, named shoutout in the README, never silent appropriation.
  2. The feedback. What the user has seen go wrong, plus whatever the source's own eval history records (a benchmark loss is the most valuable input you'll get — it names the exact failure to engineer away).
  3. A working name. The final name comes later, from the user; use the source's name with a suffix until then.

Phase 1 — Research (starts first, runs in background)

Kick off the Dossier deep-research panel immediately — it runs 5–60 minutes and everything else can proceed while it does. Protocol, budget rules, and the read-in-full requirement: references/research.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 First seen · 191 lines · 226 tokens per session scan A c1486157b655

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 226 tokens to every session and 2,502 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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