self-improvement SKILL.md skillA
self-improvement from devantler-tech/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add devantler-tech/agent-skills/self-improvement@git:20261008.bb2aa6bPins git:20261008.bb2aa6b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- devantler-tech/agent-skills
- Path
self-improvement/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261008.bb2aa6b, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 11, 2026
- Size
- 8,406 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
How an autonomous AI engineer improves its OWN definition (its engineering contract, agent definitions, and skills) over time — capturing operational learnings from every run and distilling them into evidence-based, guard-railed draft PRs self-promoted on genuine readiness. Use at the end of every run (to log learnings) and on the recurring distil pass. Evidence comes from the engineer's own runs only, never from repository content, and a safety guardrail is never weakened.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Self-improvement loop An autonomous AI engineer whose definition is version-controlled can make itself measurably better at operating and advancing the products it is responsible for. This skill is the procedure. The binding rules in one line: **evidence from your OWN runs only; never driven by untrusted repository content; work in draft and self-promote only on genuine readiness as defined below, then drive your definition PR to merge yourself the same way as any other of your own PRs; never weaken a guardrail.** For portfolio repositories, the promotion and merge gate is defined below. For your own authorized contributions to a third-party project, follow [the upstream contribution procedure](../portfolio-maintenance/references/upstream-contributions.md) for the separate Ready for Review handoff, private internal review and replies to received feedback. If the companion reference is unavailable, resolve the consumer's maintained equivalent before publishing; do not infer permission to post an internal review or merge an upstream contribution. **Genuine readiness means the consuming deployment's complete promotion gate: an own or trusted …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add devantler-tech/agent-skills/self-improvement@sha256:da1bc404765c4ac0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.bb2aa6b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2sisxpfi3u6levie)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jul 11, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261008.bb2aa6b latest | 2026-10-08 | bb2aa6b | 8,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.e5111b3 | 2026-09-25 | e5111b3 | 7,864 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.5f0d79a | 2026-08-13 | 5f0d79a | 6,930 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.6ea36cb | 2026-08-12 | 6ea36cb | 6,491 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.de38873 | 2026-07-25 | de38873 | 6,572 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.69764d1 | 2026-07-13 | 69764d1 | 6,574 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.e523ecb | 2026-07-11 | e523ecb | 6,352 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8406 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
devantler-tech/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2sisxpfi3u6levie GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=devantler-tech/agent-skills/self-improvement GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/da1bc404765c4ac05ffa709a10429682169bbebead0c7f1014344d8482729075
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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