Repository
microsoft/SkillOpt agent skills
- skills
- 5
- official
- 5
- GitHub stars
- 18k
GitHub description: “SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen LLM agents through trajectory-driven edits, validation-gated updates, and deployable best_skill.md artifacts.”
- Stars
- 18,087 (1,705 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- May 2026
- Homepage
- aka.ms/skillopt
- agent-skills
- self-evolving-agents
Install all skills
npx skills add microsoft/SkillOptAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in microsoft/SkillOpt, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Runs an on-demand or nightly sleep cycle that reviews past Claude Code sessions and proposes validated updates to CLAUDE.md and skills. | microsoft/ | 18k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | Runs a nightly or on-demand sleep cycle for a local Codex agent: review past sessions, replay recurring tasks and stage validated skill and memory edits for adoption. | microsoft/ | 18k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Mines recurring tasks from recent local Cursor sessions, replays them to test bounded skill edits, and stages validated improvements to a project Cursor skill for review. | microsoft/ | 18k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 4 | Runs a usage-driven self-improvement cycle for the dsh agent: harvest past sessions, mine recurring tasks, replay them and stage validated skill edits. | microsoft/ | 18k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Reference-only OpenClaw adaptation of SkillOpt-Sleep. Use it to study or port the contributed DeepSeek wrapper, not as a ready-to-run installation. | microsoft/ | 18k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in microsoft/SkillOpt?
SkillOpt Sleep Cycle (official) from microsoft/SkillOpt ranks first of the 5 skills in microsoft/SkillOpt listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 18k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come SkillOpt-Sleep Self-Improvement Cycle and SkillOpt-Sleep for Cursor.
Are the skills in microsoft/SkillOpt official?
5 of the 5 skills in microsoft/SkillOpt are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: SkillOpt Sleep Cycle, SkillOpt-Sleep Self-Improvement Cycle, SkillOpt-Sleep for Cursor, SkillOpt Sleep Cycle and SkillOpt-Sleep OpenClaw Reference.
How do I install all skills from microsoft/SkillOpt?
Run npx skills add microsoft/SkillOpt in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.