skill-tuning-loop SKILL.md skillA
skill-tuning-loop from patrickserrano/lacquer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add patrickserrano/lacquer/skill-tuning-loop@git:20260725.3f0d943Pins git:20260725.3f0d943 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- patrickserrano/lacquer
- Path
core/skills/skill-tuning-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260725.3f0d943, committed Jul 25, 2026
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- 5,263 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Empirically test whether a lacquer skill needs an edit by mining real session transcripts for friction, proposing a bounded fix, and validating it against held-out cases before it ships. Use when a skill in core/skills/ or profiles/*/skills/ keeps getting corrected in practice, when triaging a scheduled tuning-pass PR, or when skill-authoring-standard's manual rubric isn't enough to tell whether a proposed edit actually helps. Distinct from skill-authoring-standard…
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
# Skill Tuning Loop
A skill earning its place in the lacquer (per `skill-authoring-standard`) is
a judgment call today. This loop adds a second, empirical bar: does a
proposed edit measurably reduce the friction real sessions hit, without
regressing what already works? Run it via the `skill-tuning-loop` Workflow —
never edit a skill's behavior-affecting content based on mined evidence
without going through the validation gate below.
## When to run this
- A skill keeps needing the same correction across unrelated sessions —
that's a signal worth mining, not a one-off to shrug off.
- Before accepting an automation-proposed edit (see the continuous-tuning
design this skill's workflow implements) — the gate is what makes an
unattended proposal safe to merge.
- Never on every session, and never on a single session's evidence — one
grumpy correction is noise, not a pattern. Require independent evidence
from multiple sessions before proposing a change.
## The loop (implemented in the `skill-tuning-loop` Workflow)
1. **Mine.** Search recorded sessions (via the agentsview MCP tools) for
invocations of the target skill plus friction phrases ("no that's wrong",
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add patrickserrano/lacquer/skill-tuning-loop@sha256:03a2b47e5369d745The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260725.3f0d943, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 25, 2026.
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
patrickserrano/lacquer · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_akgat6tedg7cww72 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=patrickserrano/lacquer/skill-tuning-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/03a2b47e5369d745d837c08fa0446bd8f53e0a26e888d9e84c858ef411d8cee6
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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.