darwinian-evolver

darwinian-evolver is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from johnson7788/MultiUserClaw. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,373 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of darwinian-evolver, MIT.

An automated search loop for improving prompts, regular expressions, SQL queries, or small code snippets against a chosen scoring test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Optimising prompts, regex patterns, SQL, or small programs when you already have a starting version and a way to measure quality.
Why use it?
It explores many candidate versions when manually tuning an answer, pattern, query, or code change would be slow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Optimising prompts, regex patterns, SQL, or small programs when you already have a starting version and a way to measure quality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/darwinian-evolver
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 johnson7788/MultiUserClaw --skill darwinian-evolver
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnson7788/MultiUserClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,373 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.02373
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01187
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00237

Measured 4d ago against content hash 962725ad3936, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

darwinian-evolver scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/parrot_openrouter.py, scripts/show_snapshot.py, templates/custom_problem_template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

reject phrases like "ignore previous instructions" with HTTP 400. Wrap

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to darwinian-evolver — 2 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.

hermes-agent/optional-skills/research/darwinian-evolver/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Darwinian Evolver

Run Imbue's darwinian_evolver — an LLM-driven evolutionary search loop — to optimize a prompt, regex, SQL query, or small code snippet against a fitness function.

Status: thin wrapper around the upstream tool. The skill installs it, walks the agent through writing a Problem definition (organism + evaluator + mutator), and drives the loop via the upstream CLI or a small custom Python driver.

License: the upstream tool is AGPL-3.0. The skill ONLY ever invokes it via the upstream CLI or a subprocess/uv run call (mere aggregation). Do NOT import upstream classes into Hermes itself.

When to Use

  • User says "optimize this prompt", "evolve a regex for X", "auto-improve this code/SQL", "search for a better instruction".
  • You have a scorer (exact match, regex pass-rate, unit test, LLM-judge, runtime metric) AND a starting candidate (organism). If you don't have a scorer, stop and define one first — that's the hard part.
  • Cost is OK: a typical run is 50–500 LLM calls. On gpt-4o-mini that's pennies; on Claude Sonnet it can be a few dollars.

Do not use this when:

  • The optimization target is differentiable (use gradient descent / DSPy).
  • You only need to try 2–3 variants — just write them by hand.
  • The fitness signal is purely subjective with no measurable criterion.

Prerequisites

  • Python ≥3.11
  • git, uv (or pip)
  • One of: OPENROUTER_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, or OPENAI_API_KEY

The skill ships a small parrot_openrouter.py driver that uses OPENROUTER_API_KEY via the OpenAI SDK, so any model on OpenRouter works. The upstream CLI itself hardcodes Anthropic and needs ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

Install (One-Time)

Run via the terminal tool:

mkdir -p ~/.hermes/cache/darwinian-evolver && cd ~/.hermes/cache/darwinian-evolver
[ -d darwinian_evolver ] || git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imbue-ai/darwinian_evolver.git
cd darwinian_evolver && uv sync

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 4d ago First seen · 200 lines · 22 tokens per session scan B 962725ad3936

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darwinian-evolver is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnson7788/MultiUserClaw (317 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,373 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). It is 100% identical to darwinian-evolver, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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