self-improve

self-improve is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,170 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of self-improve, MIT.

An iterative code-improvement controller that tries alternatives and keeps the better results using a measurable benchmark. A benchmark is a repeatable test or measurement, such as speed, accuracy, coverage, or bundle size.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps optimize performance, bundle size, test coverage, accuracy, or other code-quality measures through repeated research, implementation, comparison, and stop-condition checks.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to improve code over several attempts when success can be measured.

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/jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot/self-improve
Any agent
npx skills add jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot --skill self-improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,170 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.02170
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01085
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00217

Measured 3d ago against content hash 08b963558ec3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to self-improve — 64 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/skills/self-improve/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Self-Improvement Orchestrator

Autonomous loop controller for evolutionary code improvement. Manages the full lifecycle: setup, research, planning, execution, tournament selection, history recording, and stop-condition evaluation.

When to Use

  • You want to iteratively improve a codebase toward a measurable benchmark goal
  • Optimization tasks: performance, bundle size, test coverage, accuracy
  • Code quality improvement with measurable metrics

When NOT to Use

  • No measurable benchmark available
  • One-shot fix or feature request → use /omg-autopilot
  • Manual, interactive coding → use /ralph

Autonomous Execution Policy

NEVER stop or pause to ask the user during the improvement loop. Once the gate check passes and the loop begins, run fully autonomously until a stop condition is met.

  • Do not ask for confirmation between iterations
  • On agent failure: retry once, then skip and continue
  • On all plans rejected: log it, continue to next iteration
  • The only things that stop the loop are the stop conditions in Step 11

State Tracking

All state lives under .omg/self-improve/:

.omg/self-improve/
├── config/
│   ├── settings.json          # agents, benchmark, thresholds, sealed_files
│   ├── goal.md                # Improvement objective + target metric
│   ├── harness.md             # Guardrail rules (H001/H002/H003)
│   └── idea.md                # User experiment ideas
├── state/
│   ├── agent-settings.json    # iterations, best_score, status, counters
│   ├── iteration_state.json   # Within-iteration progress (resumability)
│   ├── research_briefs/       # Research output per round
│   ├── iteration_history/     # Full history per round
│   ├── merge_reports/         # Tournament results
│   └── plan_archive/          # Archived plans (permanent)
├── plans/                     # Active plans (current round)
└── tracking/
    ├── raw_data.json          # All candidate scores
    ├── baseline.json          # Initial benchmark score
    └── events.json            # Config changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

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 · 221 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 08b963558ec3

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self-improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot (153 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,170 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to self-improve, differing in 64 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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