improve

improve is a skill for Claude Code from joao-aires/agent-skills-public. It costs 42 tokens per session (513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase-improvement workflow for finding or carrying out a defined improvement in architecture, performance, reliability, tests, user experience, or developer experience. It uses evidence and a baseline rather than changing unrelated code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to survey a repository, identify opportunities, diagnose causes, define outcomes, make focused changes, and compare results against the starting point.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague concerns into prioritized, measurable work and avoids speculative rewrites or improvements without verification.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to survey a repository, identify opportunities, diagnose causes, define outcomes, make focused changes, and compare results against the starting point.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joao-aires/agent-skills-public/improve
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 joao-aires/agent-skills-public --skill improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joao-aires/agent-skills-public

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 513 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 $0.00042 $0.00513
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00205
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured yesterday against content hash 1659f5d472b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/development/skills/improve/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Improve

Read task guidance. Read deliver-reliable-changes for baseline and verification, git-contributions for implementation when requested. Load the optional stack/domain guidance selected by task guidance only when relevant and available.

Assess opportunities

Use the relevant codebase and history to find a problem that matters in practice. Look for changes that repeatedly touch unrelated modules, expensive operations in an important journey, failures that are difficult to diagnose, inconsistent interactions, or slow and unreliable development checks. Follow the evidence far enough to distinguish a cause from a disliked coding style.

For each worthwhile opportunity, explain who is affected, what evidence shows the problem, and how a bounded change could improve it. State how improvement would be measured and what behavior needs protection. Compare likely value with implementation and maintenance cost; no finding or no worthwhile change is valid. A bare request returns a short prioritized set of proposals rather than rewriting unrelated areas or creating tickets automatically.

Implement an authorized improvement

A specific requested improvement can authorize bounded implementation. Keep a bare improvement assessment read-only; do not force another approval for routine choices already authorized.

  1. Establish a baseline, diagnose the cause and define the desired outcome.
  2. Make focused changes within scope. Preserve behavior through incremental refactoring and regression checks.
  3. Compare results with the baseline and report the evidence.

Choose the relevant analysis without imposing another process:

Concern Examine and use
UX Establish interaction intent before changing screens; account for all affected surfaces. Use available interface assessment and interface-language expertise for craft and task copy.
Usability evidence Use available research expertise for a requested study or actual observations.
Architecture Examine responsibilities, dependency direction, ownership, coupling/change hotspots, seams and testability. Use codebase-design/domain-modeling where useful, without forcing deep-module vocabulary, HTML reports or interviews.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. yesterday Changed · +20 lines 1659f5d472b3
  2. 2d ago Changed ea9cfeca420c
  3. 5d ago Changed a96f42d6fc98
  4. 7d ago First seen · 22 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A bdb68f6907f9

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improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository joao-aires/agent-skills-public (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 513 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-15.

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