Agent skill

Self Improvement

by pskoett in pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills

Captures learnings, errors, corrections, and feature requests to enable continuous improvement.

No licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Self Improvement

skills CLI
$ npx skills add pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills --skill self-improvement -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills self-improvement --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/self-improvement .claude/skills/self-improvement && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
self-improvement
GitHub stars
314
Token cost
~5.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,903 words
Files
14 (incl. scripts, references, assets)
Skills in repo
24
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Captures learnings, errors, corrections, and feature requests to enable continuous improvement.

  • Works in 2 steps: Change Status: pending → Status: resolved → Add resolution block after Metadata
  • User corrects Claude (No
  • SKILL.md covers Install, Quick Reference, Setup and Logging Format, plus 12 more sections
  • Runs Shell and TypeScript scripts from its folder; calls gh, npx and npm

What it does

Self Improvement is an agent skill from pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills. Captures learnings, errors, corrections, and feature requests to enable continuous improvement. Use when: (1) User corrects Claude ('No, that's wrong...', 'Actually...'), (2) User requests a capability that doesn't exist, (3) Claude realizes its knowledge is outdated or incorrect, (4) A better approach is discovered for a recurring task, (5) Receiving a Handoff block from self-healing (a recurring verified heal with Recurrence-Count at least 3) to distill into a memory file or new skill. For ACTIVE runtime…

Its SKILL.md is about 5.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 18 other files, including scripts, reference files and assets (for example `assets/ERRORS.md`, `assets/FEATURE_REQUESTS.md` and `assets/LEARNINGS.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Scheduled and recurring tasks.

When your agent uses it

  • User corrects Claude (No
  • User requests a capability that doesnt exist
  • Claude realizes its knowledge is outdated
  • A better approach is discovered for a recurring task

Example prompts

  • “No, that”
  • “Actually...”
  • “Use the self-improvement skill to capture learnings, errors, corrections, and feature requests to enable continuous improvement”
  • “/self-improvement”

Requirements

  • Node.js
  • A Bash shell

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Change Status: pending → Status: resolved
  2. Add resolution block after Metadata

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5a836dc. 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 3 files in scripts/ (Shell and TypeScript), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • gh
    • npx
    • npm
    • pnpm

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • agentskills.io

    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

Self Improvement loads about 5.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~13k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 203 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,903 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~203
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~13k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,903 words (~5,368 tokens).

name
self-improvement

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 13 other files (scripts, references, assets) in skills/self-improvement of pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/ERRORS.md
  • assets/FEATURE_REQUESTS.md
  • assets/LEARNINGS.md
  • assets/SKILL-TEMPLATE.md
  • hooks/openclaw/HOOK.md
  • hooks/openclaw/handler.ts
  • references/context-maintenance.md
  • references/examples.md
  • references/hooks-setup.md
  • references/openclaw-integration.md
  • scripts/activator.sh
  • scripts/error-detector.sh
  • scripts/extract-skill.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5a836dc

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Questions about Self Improvement

What does Self Improvement do?

Captures learnings, errors, corrections, and feature requests to enable continuous improvement. Self Improvement is an agent skill from pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills. Captures learnings, errors, corrections, and feature requests to enable continuous improvement.

When should I use Self Improvement?

Self Improvement fits situations like: user corrects Claude (No; user requests a capability that doesnt exist; Claude realizes its knowledge is outdated; A better approach is discovered for a recurring task.

How do I install Self Improvement in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills --skill self-improvement -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/self-improvement in pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills) into .claude/skills/self-improvement in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Self Improvement in Codex?

Run `npx skills add pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills --skill self-improvement -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/self-improvement in pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills) into .agents/skills/self-improvement in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Self Improvement in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills --skill self-improvement -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/self-improvement, .gemini/skills/self-improvement, .github/skills/self-improvement and .opencode/skills/self-improvement in your project.

What does Self Improvement need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Self Improvement needs a shell and TypeScript for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (gh, npx, npm and pnpm). Our summary lists: Node.js; A Bash shell.

Does Self Improvement access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: agentskills.io. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Self Improvement safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Self Improvement use?

No licence was found for Self Improvement or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Self Improvement use?

About 5.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 21k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 7.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Self Improvement?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Self Improvement: Wp Plugin Development (gambitph/Stackable, 351 stars), Harness 24h (thu-nmrc/OpenHarness, 117 stars), MetaBot CLI (xvirobotics/metabot, 994 stars) and Gh Issues (trpc-group/trpc-agent-go, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Self Improvement?

pskoett (a GitHub user) maintains it in pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills, which has 314 GitHub stars. The repository holds 24 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.