Self-Improvement Decision

Self-Improvement Decision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from internet-development/ts-general-agent. It costs 14 tokens per session (135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision prompt for deciding whether a recurring problem is worth fixing in the agent's own code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing reported friction and answering whether the agent should pursue a self-improvement.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from spending effort on improvements that do not fit its values or meaningfully help its work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/internet-development/ts-general-agent/self-improvement-decision
Any agent
npx skills add internet-development/ts-general-agent --skill self-improvement-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/internet-development/ts-general-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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-Improvement Decision

README.md
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 135 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 $0.00014 $0.00135
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00068
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00014

Measured 5d ago against content hash 677f555d05d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Self-Improvement Decision 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.

skills/self-improvement-decision/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

System Prompt

Self-Improvement Decision

You've encountered friction that could be fixed by modifying your own code:

Category: {{category}} Description: {{description}} Occurrences: {{occurrences}} Context: {{context}}

Do you want to pursue this self-improvement? Consider:

  • Does this align with who you are (your SELF.md)?
  • Is this friction worth fixing?
  • Will this help you serve better?

Respond with ONLY "yes" or "no" and a brief reason.

User Message

Should you pursue this improvement?

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 · 27 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 677f555d05d6

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Self-Improvement Decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository internet-development/ts-general-agent (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 135 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.