improving-skills-in-lab SKILL.md skillA
improving-skills-in-lab from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/improving-skills-in-lab@git:20261024.3106a82Pins git:20261024.3106a82 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- richfrem/agent-plugins-skills
- Path
plugins/agent-agentic-os/.apm/skills/improving-skills-in-lab/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261024.3106a82, committed Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 7,770 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Runs the Skill Improvement Lab in the main session: plan, bootstrap an isolated lab repo, KEEP or DISCARD improvement loop with a locked scorer, log and chart runs, backport, close with memory. Use for "improve this skill", "evaluate this skill", "score this change", "KEEP or DISCARD", "skill is not triggering", "fix skill description", "improve skill routing", "run the improvement loop", "run the autoresearch loop", "optimize this skill for N iterations", "close the loop…
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
# Improving skills in the lab One conversation takes a skill or agent from a plain-language goal to a scored, backported improvement. Each mode below was a separate skill; its full workflow is a reference loaded when that mode starts. ## Contents - [Critical constraints](#critical-constraints) - [Quick start](#quick-start) - [Workflow](#workflow) - [Handoff block](#handoff-block) - [Verification](#verification) - [References](#references) ## Critical constraints 1. **One question at a time.** Read the whole message first, never re-ask, and offer a default with each choice. 2. **Stay read-only until the user confirms the summary** (the interview, step 4). 3. **The scorer is locked.** Every change gets exit 0 (KEEP) or 1 (DISCARD, auto-reverted); never edit `evals/evals.json` or the scorer during a run. 4. **Never record an approval for the user.** Present the command and let them run it. 5. **Lab work stays in the isolated lab repo.** Master sources change only through the backport mode, and only after checking the target skill is installed. ## Quick start Keep the user's own wording. Ask in this order, skipping what is known, then confirm before writing anything: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/improving-skills-in-lab@sha256:c46a4e67908f843aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.3106a82, 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_c4b2tn5gmepuu4zd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 24, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
richfrem/agent-plugins-skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c4b2tn5gmepuu4zd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/improving-skills-in-lab GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c46a4e67908f843a99071c33f95fb5a2e2329870ca861c32497ce2d8ef0e121f
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.