evolution

A self-improvement workflow for Nova, an AI system, that scans technology updates and proposes or applies changes to its rules, skills, and hooks. It uses web and GitHub searches, then can run implementation and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan Claude Code and MCP updates, inspect relevant open-source projects, create improvement proposals, apply approved changes, and record decisions.
Why use it?
It gives Nova a defined way to review outside developments while keeping proposed changes subject to filters, checks, and user approval where required.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/teamspwk/nova/evolution
Any agent
npx skills add TeamSPWK/nova --skill evolution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TeamSPWK/nova

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,467 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00060 $0.03467
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01733
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00693
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00347

Measured yesterday against content hash 8ad620cbfec3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evolution 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 yesterday.

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.

dev/skills/evolution/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nova Self-Evolution Pipeline

/nova:evolve 커맨드의 핵심 파이프라인을 정의한다.

Pipeline Overview

Scanner → Filter → Proposal → [Builder → Gate Chain → Merge]
                                        (--apply/--auto만)

Scanner 소스 상세

Scanner는 WebSearch + GitHub Search API (gh api) 두 채널을 병렬 사용한다. gh api는 star/topic 같은 정량 시그널을 수집하고, WebSearch는 changelog/블로그 같은 서술 정보를 수집한다.

Anthropic 공식 (최고 우선순위, 임계값 면제)

WebSearch 키워드:

  • site:docs.anthropic.com Claude Code
  • site:anthropic.com/blog
  • Claude Code changelog latest
  • Claude Code hooks MCP update

gh api 쿼리:

gh api 'search/repositories?q=org:anthropics+claude-code&sort=updated&per_page=10'
gh api 'search/repositories?q=org:anthropics+language:TypeScript&sort=updated&per_page=10'

체크 포인트:

  • Claude Code 새 버전/기능
  • MCP 프로토콜 변경
  • hooks API 변경
  • 새로운 도구/권한 모델
  • 플러그인 시스템 변경

Claude Code 생태계

WebSearch 키워드:

  • Claude Code plugin community
  • CLAUDE.md best practices 2026
  • Claude Code custom agents

gh api 쿼리:

gh api 'search/repositories?q=claude+code+skills+in:name,description&sort=stars&per_page=10'
gh api 'search/repositories?q=topic:claude-code&sort=stars&per_page=10'
gh api 'search/repositories?q=awesome-claude-code&sort=stars&per_page=10'
gh api 'search/repositories?q=claude+code+mcp+in:name,description&sort=stars&per_page=10'

체크 포인트:

  • 인기 있는 플러그인 패턴
  • CLAUDE.md 작성 최신 권장사항
  • 에이전트 설계 패턴

하네스 도구 (오픈소스)

WebSearch 키워드:

  • aider changelog latest
  • cursor rules update
  • AI coding assistant comparison 2026
  • LLM harness engineering

gh api 쿼리 (2개 — 다양성 의무 충족 후 노이즈 회피):

gh api 'search/repositories?q=aider-chat+in:name,description&sort=stars&per_page=10'
gh api 'search/repositories?q=cursor+rules+in:name,description&sort=stars&per_page=10'

총 8개 쿼리 (Anthropic 2 + 생태계 4 + 하네스 2). cline/continue.dev/windsurf는 WebSearch 키워드로 커버. 추가 쿼리 필요 시 --sources 옵션으로 확장 가능.

체크 포인트:

  • 다른 도구에서 검증된 패턴
  • Nova에 없는 유용한 기능
  • 품질 게이트 관련 새로운 접근법

Baseline Fallback

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. yesterday First seen · 263 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 8ad620cbfec3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

evolution is a skill published in the GitHub repository TeamSPWK/nova (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,467 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 2026-08-31.

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