improve

improve is a skill for Claude Code from stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins. It costs 52 tokens per session (188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that helps choose how to respond to concerns found during a critical review; its process is now part of the improvement command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it through /devils-advocate:iterate to suggest changes, apply recommended fixes, discuss a plan, or re-score edits made elsewhere.
Why use it?
It makes the handoff from identifying problems to deciding on fixes explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the devils-advocate plugin — 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it through /devils-advocate:iterate to suggest changes, apply recommended fixes, discuss a plan, or re-score edits made elsewhere.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devils-advocate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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 improve

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/improve/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/improve)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/improve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/improve/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for improve

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/improve"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/improve.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 188 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 $0.00052 $0.00188
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00075
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00019

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 844556051948, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve 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.

plugins/devils-advocate/skills/improve/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Devil's Advocate - Improve

Integrated into /devils-advocate:iterate.

Iterate handles full cycle: decide improvement (Step 1) -> apply changes + version (Step 2) -> score (Step 3) -> rename with residual (Step 4).

Use /devils-advocate:iterate directly. First step asks same improvement mode (your suggestions / auto-apply / planning mode / you already edited).

When user edits outside Claude

User edited externally, wants re-scoring only: /devils-advocate:iterate option 4 ("you already edited") skips straight to scoring.

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 First seen · 17 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 844556051948

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 188 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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