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.
npx agentmods add skills/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins/improvenpx skills add jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins --skill improvegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-pluginsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins/improve)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins/improve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins/improve.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00103 | $0.01746 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.00873 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00349 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00175 |
Grade A, and why
improve 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Improve Workflow
Evaluate and evolve running AI workflows. Review how a deployed workflow is performing against its original baseline, identify degradation or growth signals, and recommend whether to tune, redesign, or evolve the orchestration mechanism.
Workflow
1. Load workflow context
Registry entry: the workflow's registry entry is its Workflow concept node in the workspace's
registry/bundle — seeindexing-registry/references/registry-bundle.md(in this plugin) for resolution, write rules, and your fields. If the workspace has noregistry/SCHEMA.md, offer thescaffolding-registryskill first (it also migrates legacyworkflow.yamlworkspaces); do not write registry entries until the bundle exists.
Read the workflow's Workflow node (registry/workflows/<slug>.md) and load the artifacts it links: the Design Spec, Run Guide, original Test Results (the baseline), and the run log (runs.md) if one exists. Resume orientation: if the user arrived via "continue my workflow" or with no stated workflow, check registry/workflows/ for existing Workflow nodes (if several, list them) and orient from which artifacts each node's # Artifacts section already links before proceeding. If no Workflow node exists yet but legacy flat files (outputs/[name]-*.md) do, use those paths. If this environment has no persistent workspace and the files aren't present, ask the user to reconnect your registry repo via the GitHub connector, or re-upload the bundle folder, instead of failing.
Confirm the artifacts belong to the same workflow — check that the workflow field in the Test Results frontmatter matches the Workflow node before treating its scores as this workflow's baseline. Parse the baseline scores from the Test Results frontmatter (scores and averages) — that's the regression reference.
Check the review schedule. If the Workflow node has a stale_after date, compare it to today: if overdue, note it plainly ("This review was due [date] — good timing") and, at the end of this run, agree a fresh stale_after date. If the user arrived well before the date, ask what prompted the early check — that signal (quality slipped, requirements changed) often points straight at the diagnosis.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 115 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 0615bcf7292c
improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,746 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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