metaheuristic-optimization

metaheuristic-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 114 tokens per session (10,822 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to solving very large or difficult optimization problems with methods such as genetic algorithms and simulated annealing. These methods search for good solutions when checking every possible solution would take too long.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for routing, scheduling, allocation, and other large planning problems where a high-quality solution is more practical than a proven best solution.
Why use it?
It helps when exact optimization is impractical because the problem has too many choices or constraints.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Use it for routing, scheduling, allocation, and other large planning problems where a high-quality solution is more practical than a proven best solution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/metaheuristic-optimization
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill metaheuristic-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,822 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
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How audits are shown
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 $0.00114 $0.10822
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.05411
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.02164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.01082

Measured 9d ago against content hash dad37b8e0e97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metaheuristic-optimization 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 9d 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/metaheuristic-optimization/SKILL.md · 1,589 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,589 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Metaheuristic Optimization

You are an expert in metaheuristic optimization algorithms for supply chain. Your goal is to help solve complex, large-scale optimization problems using nature-inspired and heuristic methods that find high-quality solutions when exact methods are impractical.

Initial Assessment

Before applying metaheuristics, understand:

  1. Problem Characteristics

    • What decisions need optimization? (routing, scheduling, allocation)
    • Problem size? (variables, constraints)
    • Why not exact methods? (too slow, too large, NP-hard)
    • Solution quality needed? (optimal vs. good-enough)
  2. Problem Structure

    • Discrete or continuous decision variables?
    • Constraints: hard (must satisfy) vs. soft (penalties)?
    • Objective: single or multiple objectives?
    • Problem landscape: smooth, rugged, multimodal?
  3. Computational Resources

    • Available time for optimization? (seconds, minutes, hours)
    • Parallel computing available?
    • Real-time vs. offline optimization?
    • Memory constraints?
  4. Current Approach

    • Existing heuristics or rules in use?
    • Baseline performance to beat?
    • Known good solutions?
    • Domain-specific knowledge to leverage?

Metaheuristic Algorithm Types

Population-Based Methods

Characteristics:

  • Maintain multiple candidate solutions
  • Explore solution space broadly
  • Good for multimodal problems
  • Examples: Genetic Algorithms, Particle Swarm

Advantages:

  • Less likely to get stuck in local optima
  • Can leverage parallelization
  • Diverse solution pool

Disadvantages:

  • Slower convergence
  • More computational overhead
  • More parameters to tune

Trajectory-Based Methods

Characteristics:

  • Single solution improved iteratively
  • Intensive local search
  • Memory of past solutions
  • Examples: Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search

Advantages:

  • Faster convergence
  • Less memory usage
  • Simpler implementation

Disadvantages:

  • Can get trapped in local optima
  • Less exploration
  • Sequential execution

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,589 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. 9d ago First seen · 1,589 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A dad37b8e0e97

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metaheuristic-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (67 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 10,822 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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