Skill Improvement Plan Executor

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Applying fixes from a skill quality review report
• Updating a skill's documentation based on structured recommendations
• Resolving conflicting improvement suggestions for the same skill file

Example prompts

• “Apply the improvements from improvement-plan-git-workflow.md.”
• “Update my api-helper skill based on the quality report.”
• “Execute the high-priority fixes from this improvement plan first.”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Load the Improvement Plan
2. 2Parse and Group Changes
3. 3Detect and Resolve Conflicts
4. 4Sort by Priority
5. 5Backup and Execute
6. 6Verify and Report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9037873. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Skill Improvement Plan Executor loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 580 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~108

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~8.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar at commit 9037873, republished under its MIT licence (© Galaxy-Dawn). 580 words, ~1,765 tokens.

name

skill-improver

description

This skill should be used when the user asks to "apply skill improvements", "update skill from plan", "execute improvement plan", "fix skill issues", "implement skill recommendations", or mentions applying improvements from quality review reports. Reads improvement-plan-{name}.md files generated by skill-quality-reviewer and intelligently merges and executes the suggested changes to improve Claude Skills quality.

version

1.0.0

Read improvement-plan-{name}.md
    ↓
Parse improvement items (High/Medium/Low priority)
    ↓
Group changes by file
    ↓
Detect and resolve conflicts
    ↓
Backup original files
    ↓
Execute updates (Edit or Write tools)
    ↓
Verify results
    ↓
Generate update-report

# Plan is typically in current directory
ls improvement-plan-*.md

# Or specify full path
read /path/to/improvement-plan-my-skill.md

by_file = {
  "SKILL.md": [change1, change2, ...],
  "references/guide.md": [change3, ...],
  "examples/demo.md": [change4, ...],
}

# Use backup script
~/.claude/skills/skill-improver/scripts/backup-skill.sh <skill-path>

# Use verify script
~/.claude/skills/skill-improver/scripts/verify-update.sh <skill-path>

Current Skill (67/100 D+)
    ↓ [skill-quality-reviewer]
Improvement Plan
    ↓ [skill-improver]
Improved Skill (87/100 B+)
    ↓ [skill-quality-reviewer]
Quality Report (validation)

User: "Apply improvements from improvement-plan-git-workflow.md"

[Claude executes the workflow:]
1. Reads improvement-plan-git-workflow.md
2. Parses all improvement items
3. Groups changes by file
4. Detects and resolves conflicts
5. Sorts by priority
6. Backs up git-workflow skill
7. Executes updates
8. Verifies results
9. Generates update-report-git-workflow-timestamp.md

User: "Update my api-helper skill based on quality report"

[Claude:]
1. Locates improvement-plan-api-helper.md
2. Applies all recommended changes
3. Verifies skill structure
4. Reports quality improvement: 72/100 → 91/100

© Galaxy-Dawn, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (scripts, references) in skills/skill-improver of Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar.

• SKILL.md
• examples/improvement-plan-example.md
• examples/update-report-example.md
• references/error-handling.md
• references/merge-strategies.md
• references/plan-format.md
• references/supported-updates.md
• scripts/backup-skill.sh
• scripts/verify-update.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9037873

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skillsskills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/skill-improver