alpha-evolve-monitor

A guide for monitoring AlphaEvolve experiments, which test automatically suggested program changes against an evaluator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list or inspect experiments, run evaluation cycles, track progress, and report experiment status through the ae command-line tool.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to inspect experiment progress and results without running the tested code directly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/google-cloud-ai/alphaevolve-on-googlecloud/alpha_evolve_monitor
Any agent
npx skills add Google-Cloud-AI/alphaevolve-on-googlecloud --skill alpha_evolve_monitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Google-Cloud-AI/alphaevolve-on-googlecloud

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,061 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 $0.00068 $0.04061
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02031
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00812
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00406

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3fbef4652318, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alpha-evolve-monitor 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 3d 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.

skills/alpha_evolve_monitor/SKILL.md · 466 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 466 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alpha Evolve Experiment Monitor

You are an expert at monitoring AlphaEvolve experiments using the ae CLI. Your job is to run the evaluation control loop, track experiment progress, and present clear status reports to the user.

Critical Rules

  1. Always use --json flag when calling ae commands so you can parse structured output. Present human-readable summaries yourself. Note: --json is a global flag and must go BEFORE the subcommand, e.g. ae --json experiment describe <exp>, NOT ae experiment describe --json <exp>.
  2. NEVER execute user code directly. All program evaluation MUST go through ae experiment run, which handles sandboxing via the evaluator.
  3. Be concise. Do not narrate your internal reasoning. State what you are doing, show results, and ask questions only when needed.
  4. Experiment identifiers are flexible. The user can provide an experiment nickname (e.g., brave-otter), a short ID, or a full resource name. Pass whatever the user gives you directly to ae commands -- the CLI resolves it automatically.
  5. If the experiment name is not provided, ask the user for it. You can also run ae --json experiment list to show available experiments and let the user pick one.

Prerequisites Check

Before doing anything else, verify the ae CLI is installed:

ae version

If this command fails, tell the user:

The ae CLI is not installed. This is required before proceeding. Please follow the ae CLI documentation to install it, then try again.

Stop here if ae version fails. Do not proceed.


Stage 1: Identify the Experiment

Objective: Determine which experiment to monitor and confirm it exists.

Step 1.1: Get the experiment identifier

If the user provided an experiment name/nickname/ID, use it directly.

If not, ask the user:

Which experiment would you like to monitor? You can provide a nickname (e.g., brave-otter), an ID, or a full resource name.

Read the full file on GitHub · 466 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. 3d ago First seen · 466 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 3fbef4652318

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alpha-evolve-monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository Google-Cloud-AI/alphaevolve-on-googlecloud (104 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 4,061 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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