skill-improver

skill-improver is a skill for Claude Code from ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review-and-fix workflow for improving Claude Code skills, which are reusable instructions for an AI coding assistant. It repeatedly sends a skill through an automated reviewer and applies fixes until it meets the expected standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine a new or existing SKILL.md file, address reviewer findings, and run repeated quality checks.
Why use it?
It removes the need to find and correct every quality issue manually. It also provides a repeatable way to improve a skill over several review cycles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to refine a new or existing SKILL.md file, address reviewer findings, and run repeated quality checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas/skill-improver
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 ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas --skill skill-improver
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,241 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 $0.00055 $0.01241
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00124

Measured 9d ago against content hash c59a98378976, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-improver 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.

.claude/skills/skill-improver/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Improvement Methodology

Iteratively improve a Claude Code skill using the skill-reviewer agent until it meets quality standards.

Prerequisites

Requires the plugin-dev plugin which provides the skill-reviewer agent.

Verify it's enabled: run /pluginsplugin-dev should appear in the list. If missing, install from the Trail of Bits plugin repository.

Core Loop

  1. Review - Call skill-reviewer on the target skill
  2. Categorize - Parse issues by severity
  3. Fix - Address critical and major issues
  4. Evaluate - Check minor issues for validity before fixing
  5. Repeat - Continue until quality bar is met

When to Use

  • Improving a skill with multiple quality issues
  • Iterating on a new skill until it meets standards
  • Automated fix-review cycles instead of manual editing
  • Consistent quality enforcement across skills

When NOT to Use

  • One-time review: Use /skill-reviewer directly instead
  • Quick single fixes: Edit the file directly
  • Non-skill files: Only works on SKILL.md files
  • Experimental skills: Manual iteration gives more control during exploration

Issue Categorization

Critical Issues (MUST fix immediately)

These block skill loading or cause runtime failures:

  • Missing required frontmatter fields (name, description) — Claude cannot index or trigger the skill
  • Invalid YAML frontmatter syntax — Parsing fails, skill won't load
  • Referenced files that don't exist — Runtime errors when Claude follows links
  • Broken file paths — Same as above, leads to tool failures

Major Issues (MUST fix)

These significantly degrade skill effectiveness:

  • Weak or vague trigger descriptions — Claude may not recognize when to use the skill
  • Wrong writing voice (second person "you" instead of imperative) — Inconsistent with Claude's execution model
  • SKILL.md exceeds 500 lines without using references/ — Overloads context, reduces comprehension
  • Missing "When to Use" or "When NOT to Use" sections — Required by project quality standards
  • Description doesn't specify when to trigger — Skill may never be selected

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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 · 146 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A c59a98378976

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skill-improver is a skill published in the GitHub repository ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,241 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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