brain-evolve

brain-evolve is a skill for Claude Code from toroleapinc/claude-brain. It costs 30 tokens per session (344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance tool for reviewing stored agent memories and suggesting durable additions to instructions, rules, or skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze accumulated memory, review proposed promotions, archive stale entries, and apply accepted changes.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful patterns from past work while identifying outdated memories that may be removed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-brain plugin — 9 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add toroleapinc/claude-brain
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 344 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 5.1 $0.00030 $0.00344
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4d9ee1f1ed8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brain-evolve 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 6d 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/brain-evolve/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

The user wants to evolve their brain by promoting stable patterns from memory.

Steps

  1. Run the evolution analysis:

    bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/evolve.sh"
    
  2. Read the analysis results from ~/.claude/brain-repo/meta/last-evolve.json.

  3. For each recommendation in promotions, present it to the user:

    For claude_md promotions:

    • Show the proposed addition
    • Show the reason
    • Ask: Accept / Skip / Edit first
    • If accepted, append to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

    For rule promotions:

    • Show the proposed rule content
    • Ask: Accept / Skip / Edit first
    • If accepted, write to ~/.claude/rules/.md

    For skill suggestions:

    • Show the proposed skill
    • Ask: Accept / Skip / Edit first
    • If accepted, create in ~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md
  4. For each entry in stale_entries, ask:

    • Archive (remove from memory) / Keep
    • If archived, note in the memory file that it was archived
  5. After all changes are applied:

    bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/push.sh"
    
  6. Show summary: "Brain evolved: X promotions accepted, Y stale entries archived."

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. 6d ago First seen · 46 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 4d9ee1f1ed8e

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brain-evolve is a skill published in the GitHub repository toroleapinc/claude-brain (85 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 344 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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