self-eval

self-eval is a skill for Claude Code from Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit. It costs 102 tokens per session (2,282 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured way to assess the quality of AI-produced work using separate ratings for task difficulty and execution quality. It includes a required argument for both a higher and a lower rating, plus saved scores for comparison over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a coding task, review, or work session to evaluate the task’s ambition and the quality of its execution.
Why use it?
It reduces the tendency to rate every task similarly and makes the reasoning behind a score easier to challenge. Past scores can reveal repeated overrating.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it after a coding task, review, or work session to evaluate the task’s ambition and the quality of its execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit/self-eval
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 Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit --skill self-eval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,282 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 $0.00102 $0.02282
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00913
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00228

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 95d9dc854eec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-eval 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 1mo 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.

site/skills/programming/ai-engineering/self-eval/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Self-Eval: Honest Work Evaluation

Produces an honest, calibrated work assessment. It replaces the AI default of "give everything a 4" with a structured two-axis score, forced devil's-advocate reasoning, and cross-session anti-inflation detection.

Core insight: AI self-evaluation converges on "everything is a 4" because a single axis conflates task difficulty with execution quality. self-eval splits the two axes apart, then combines the score using a fixed matrix the model cannot override.

Input Checklist

Input Required Description
Context to evaluate Yes Work completed in the current session, or a specific task passed via /self-eval <description>
Historical scores file No .self-eval-scores.jsonl in the working directory; used for the anti-inflation check if present

When something is missing, ask for it all at once: "Please provide: (1) the work to evaluate (default = what was completed in this session; you can use /self-eval to specify); (2) whether to compare against historical scores across sessions (default reads .self-eval-scores.jsonl; skip if none). Once confirmed, I'll start."

Pre-flight Checks

  • This skill is pure prompt-driven with no external dependencies; no tools need installing.
  • The working directory is writable (used to append to .self-eval-scores.jsonl): test -w . → writable; otherwise only output the evaluation, skip persistence, and say so.
  • If the user passes $ARGUMENTS or /self-eval <content>, use that content as the evaluation target; otherwise review the entire session history, first summarizing this session's outcome in one sentence before scoring.

Workflow

Step 1: Identify and summarize the work

Action: identify completed work from the session history (or passed arguments) and summarize it in one sentence. Expected: produce a single-line Task summary. On failure: the history is empty or cannot be determined → ask the user to explicitly specify the evaluation target with /self-eval <description>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 1mo ago Changed · -3 tokens per session 95d9dc854eec
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -25 lines · +54 tokens per session 7694a61e7456
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 186 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 0b829818fd15

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self-eval is a skill published in the GitHub repository Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit (0 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,282 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.