eval-loop

A repeatable method for finding the root cause of a quality problem, setting a target, and checking each attempted fix with tests or scoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve user experience, data, architecture, code quality, feature completeness, or writing by iterating until defined checks pass.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from treating only visible symptoms and provides evidence that a change actually reaches the desired quality level.

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/jacob-dietle/context-os/eval-loop
Any agent
npx skills add jacob-dietle/context-os --skill eval-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jacob-dietle/context-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,905 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 $0.00150 $0.04905
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.02452
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00981
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00490

Measured 3d ago against content hash a1ac29e48d3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eval-loop 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.

.claude/skills/eval-loop/SKILL.md · 458 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 458 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Eval Loop

Generalized quality iteration loop for any dimension — UX, data architecture, code quality, feature completeness, content tone. Traces specific symptoms to structural root causes, defines measurable targets, and iterates with automated backpressure until targets pass.

Meta-Principle: "Don't fix the symptom, fix the class — but verify by measuring the symptom."

Scope-Principle (added): "This loop verifies presence, shape, and content quality. It does NOT verify predictive validity. Scoring/classification problems require statistical gates this skill does not provide — route them to eval-driven-scoring."


When to Use This Skill

Apply this skill when:

  • A specific quality complaint surfaces ("I can't click the contact", "this email sounds robotic")
  • A feature needs a quality bar before shipping ("what would 10/10 look like?")
  • A class of problems keeps recurring (data gaps, UX friction, architectural debt)
  • Quality needs to improve but the path from current → target is unclear
  • Multiple dimensions (UX + data + code) need coordinated improvement

Do NOT use for:

  • Initial architecture design (use /specification-driven-development)
  • LLM scoring / classification / predictive ranking — use /eval-driven-scoring. This is a HARD route, not a suggestion.
  • Simple bugs with obvious fixes (just fix them)
  • Performance optimization (different discipline — profile first)

Relationship to eval-driven-scoring: This skill is the generalized eval loop for deterministic quality (presence, shape, tone, content). eval-driven-scoring is the specialized sibling for predictive quality (classification, ranking). They are NOT interchangeable — predictive problems need holdouts, base rates, and discriminative ratios that this skill does not enforce.


Step 0: Classify the Problem Type (MANDATORY — DO FIRST)

Before Step 1, classify the quality problem. Routing wrong here wastes work and can produce confidently wrong scoring models.

Read the full file on GitHub · 458 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 458 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A a1ac29e48d3c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eval-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository jacob-dietle/context-os (108 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 4,905 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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