skill-evaluation-iteration

skill-evaluation-iteration is a skill for Codex from jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills. It costs 64 tokens per session (520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for testing and improving agent skills by comparing results with and without the skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating realistic test scenarios, comparing outputs, defining acceptance checks, identifying gaps, updating skills, and validating the changes.
Why use it?
It shows whether a skill actually improves correctness, safety, usefulness, or efficiency instead of merely adding more instructions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Creating realistic test scenarios, comparing outputs, defining acceptance checks, identifying gaps, updating skills, and validating the changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeremylongworth-source/agentskills/skill-evaluation-iteration
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills --skill skill-evaluation-iteration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 520 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00064 $0.00520
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00052

Measured 7d ago against content hash d649a2c06d63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-evaluation-iteration 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 7d 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/skill-evaluation-iteration/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Evaluation Iteration

Core Workflow

  1. Define the target behavior and realistic user scenarios before editing the skill.
  2. Run or simulate a baseline without the skill when practical.
  3. Run or simulate the same scenario with the skill.
  4. Compare outputs by decision quality, missing steps, correctness, concision, safety, tool use, validation, and deliverable usefulness.
  5. Patch the skill to close observed gaps. Keep changes small and domain-specific.
  6. Validate the skill folder with the official validator.
  7. Repeat only when the new test reveals a material gap.

Output Contract

For skillset improvement work, return:

  • Scenarios evaluated
  • Rubric used
  • Gaps found
  • Skills changed
  • Validation run
  • Remaining risks or deferred improvements

Patch Decision Rule

Patch a skill only when the test reveals a concrete trigger, workflow, output, validation, freshness, or routing gap. Do not edit skills just to make them longer.

Evaluation Criteria

  • Trigger accuracy: skill activates for the right requests and avoids unrelated ones.
  • Metadata sync: agents/openai.yaml still reflects the current SKILL.md purpose, especially after major edits.
  • Account routing: account-level instructions mention the skill when it should be globally discoverable.
  • Context efficiency: SKILL.md is concise and references are loaded only when needed.
  • Procedural value: skill changes the agent's workflow, not just wording.
  • Quality bar: output includes acceptance criteria, validation, and domain-specific checks.
  • Robustness: skill handles edge cases, constraints, and missing context.
  • Maintainability: skill avoids stale facts unless it includes a freshness rule.
  • Hygiene: generated scaffold placeholders, TODOs, stale examples, and irrelevant boilerplate are removed.

When To Forward-Test

Forward-test when the skill is complex, high-impact, or repeatedly used. Use realistic prompts and raw artifacts. Avoid leaking expected answers into the test prompt.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 7d ago First seen · 54 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A d649a2c06d63

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skill-evaluation-iteration is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 520 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 2026-09-03.