skill-improvement

skill-improvement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mouchegmouradian/claude-code-skills. It costs 141 tokens per session (1,219 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance helper for improving existing coding-agent skills when a session exposes a mistake, missing guidance, or an edge case.

In plain words
What is it for?
It identifies a skill gap, proposes a focused change, and—with approval—creates a local Git branch and commit in the skills repository.
Why use it?
It records useful corrections so skills can stay accurate without relying on someone to remember and update them manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It identifies a skill gap, proposes a focused change, and—with approval—creates a local Git branch and commit in the skills repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mouchegmouradian/claude-code-skills/skill-improvement
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 mouchegmouradian/claude-code-skills --skill skill-improvement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mouchegmouradian/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,219 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 $0.00141 $0.01219
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00122

Measured 12d ago against content hash 427e517f1ebc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-improvement 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 12d 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/skill-improvement/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Improvement

This skill captures knowledge gained during a working session and feeds it back into the relevant skill — keeping skills accurate and up to date without manual maintenance.

When to trigger

Trigger this skill whenever, during a session, you observe any of the following:

  • A skill's instructions were incomplete or wrong and you had to correct course
  • You discovered an edge case the skill didn't cover
  • The user corrected you in a way that implies a skill gap
  • A fix, workaround, or pattern emerged that should be documented for next time
  • The user explicitly says "update the skill", "add this to the skill", etc.
  • At natural session wrap-up points when a skill was actively used — proactively check if anything is worth capturing, even if the user didn't mention it

Don't wait to be asked. If you notice something, surface it.

Skill repo location

The skills git repo is at: ~/Projects/claude-code-skills/ Skills source lives at: ~/Projects/claude-code-skills/skills/ The ~/.claude/skills/ directory contains symlinks into the above.

The improvement flow

Step 1 — Identify and summarize the gap

When you detect an improvement opportunity, pause and tell the user:

"I noticed something worth capturing in the [skill-name] skill: [one-sentence description of the gap or fix]. Want me to propose a patch?"

Keep it brief. Don't write the patch yet.

Step 2 — Draft the patch

If the user says yes (or "go ahead", "sure", etc.), draft the minimal change to SKILL.md:

  • Show a unified diff or clearly marked before/after block
  • Keep changes surgical — fix only what was wrong, don't refactor unrelated sections
  • If adding new content, place it in the most logical existing section rather than appending at the end
  • If the change is substantial, briefly explain your reasoning

Then ask:

"Does this look right, or would you like to adjust anything before I commit it?"

Step 3 — Apply and commit (only after explicit approval)

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 12d ago First seen · 138 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 427e517f1ebc

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skill-improvement is a skill published in the GitHub repository mouchegmouradian/claude-code-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,219 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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