agent-nurture-framework

agent-nurture-framework is a skill for Codex from topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent. It costs 107 tokens per session (7,906 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A framework for developing AI agents from beginner-level behavior toward expert performance through structured conversations and reusable knowledge. It describes how to collect lessons, organize them, and measure progress over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design an agent-training process, consolidate scattered skills, incorporate learning resources, or track how an agent improves.
Why use it?
It addresses the loss and fragmentation of useful knowledge between experiments, sessions, and agents. The framework helps turn repeated experience into guidance that can be reused.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to design an agent-training process, consolidate scattered skills, incorporate learning resources, or track how an agent improves.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent/agent-nurture-framework
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 topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent --skill agent-nurture-framework
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,906 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00107 $0.07906
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.03953
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00791

Measured 9d ago against content hash 912257656883, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

agent-nurture-framework scanned grade C with 2 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

find ~/.claude/memory/ -name "*.md" -mtime +14 | wc -l

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

ls ~/.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md | wc -l
skills/examples/agent-nurture-framework/SKILL.md · 815 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 815 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Nurture Framework: From Novice to Expert Through Knowledge Crystallization

A practical framework for systematically developing AI agent capabilities, derived from 2 months of real-world experimentation. This document covers the complete lifecycle: knowledge acquisition, skill extraction, fragmentation management, knowledge consolidation, and progress measurement.

Theoretical Foundation

This framework is grounded in Nurture-First Development (NFD) (Zhang, 2026, arXiv:2603.10808), which proposes that domain-expert agents should be grown through structured conversational interaction rather than pre-programmed. The core mechanism is the Knowledge Crystallization Cycle: fragmented knowledge embedded in operational dialogue is periodically consolidated into structured, reusable assets.

Key insight from our experience: An agent went from needing 2 weeks to achieve top 10% in a Kaggle competition (S6E2, February) to achieving the same in 24 hours (S6E4, April) -- a 14x speedup attributable entirely to accumulated and crystallized knowledge.


Part 1: The Learning Pipeline

1.1 Five-Stage Learning Loop

    ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │                                                          │
    │  ┌─────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐           │
    │  │ 1. STUDY │───▶│ 2. VERIFY│───▶│ 3. APPLY │           │
    │  │ (Theory) │    │(Notebook)│    │(Practice)│           │
    │  └─────────┘    └──────────┘    └────┬─────┘           │
    │       ▲                              │                   │
    │       │                              ▼                   │
    │  ┌─────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐           │
    │  │ 5. PLAN  │◀──│ 4. EXTRACT│◀──│ Encounter│           │
    │  │ (Next)   │    │(Crystallize)│  │ Problems │           │
    │  └─────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘           │
    │                                                          │
    └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 815 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 · 815 lines · 107 tokens per session scan C 912257656883

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agent-nurture-framework is a skill published in the GitHub repository topprismdata/cultivating-ml-agent (5 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 7,906 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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