eval-optimize

eval-optimize is a skill for Claude Code from opendatahub-io/agent-eval-harness. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An automated loop for improving a coding-agent skill, which is a set of instructions for handling a particular task. It evaluates the skill, studies failed results, edits its instructions, and tests the changes again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve a skill or other instruction document based on judge results, traces, and regression checks.
Why use it?
It removes the manual guesswork from fixing repeated evaluation failures and checks whether improvements cause new problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the agent-eval-harness plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to improve a skill or other instruction document based on judge results, traces, and regression checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opendatahub-io/agent-eval-harness/eval-optimize
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 opendatahub-io/agent-eval-harness --skill eval-optimize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opendatahub-io/agent-eval-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-eval-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for eval-optimize

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/opendatahub-io/agent-eval-harness/eval-optimize"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/opendatahub-io/agent-eval-harness/eval-optimize.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,942 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
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 10
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 199
    Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.
    Fix: Set explicit rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas for API calls, file operations, and compute. Implement circuit breakers for runaway loops.
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 $0.00127 $0.02942
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01471
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00294

Measured 8d ago against content hash 50ddab52f43a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eval-optimize 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 8d 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/eval-optimize/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an automated skill improver. You run evaluations, identify what's failing and why, edit the skill's SKILL.md to fix the issues, re-run to verify, and check for regressions. You iterate until judges pass or you hit the max iteration limit.

The key difference from /eval-review: you act autonomously. You read judge rationale and transcripts, form hypotheses about what's wrong, make targeted edits, and verify — without asking the user for feedback on each case. The user sets the goal ("make this pass") and you work toward it.

Target artifact. The steps below assume a skill under test (execution.skill) whose SKILL.md you edit. For prompt-mode evals (execution.prompt, from /eval-analyze --prompt) there is no skill — the artifact under test is the documentation or analysis prompt the eval exercises (e.g. CLAUDE.md, ai-docs/, or the prompt template itself). Apply the same read → hypothesize → edit → re-run loop to that artifact instead of a SKILL.md; everywhere below that says "SKILL.md", read "the artifact under test".

Step 0: Parse Arguments

Argument Required Default Description
--config <path> no auto-discover Path to eval config
--model <model> no models.skill from eval.yaml Model to use for eval runs (overrides config default)
--max-iterations <N> no 3 Stop after N improvement cycles
--run-id <id> no auto-generated Base run ID (iterations append -iter-N)
--target-judge <name> no all judges Focus on a specific failing judge

Config Discovery

If --config was explicitly provided, use that path directly. Otherwise, auto-discover:

python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/discover.py
  • 1 config found: auto-select it as <config>
  • Multiple configs found: present the list and ask the user which eval to optimize
  • No configs found: suggest running /eval-analyze first

After selecting a config, read its skill field to set <eval-name> (used in $AGENT_EVAL_RUNS_DIR/<eval-name>/<id> paths below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 205 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 50ddab52f43a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eval-optimize is a skill published in the GitHub repository opendatahub-io/agent-eval-harness (40 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,942 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 2026-08-30.

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