evolve SKILL.md skillA
evolve from sethgammon/citadel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/evolve@git:20260611.0f3f8e7Pins git:20260611.0f3f8e7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sethgammon/citadel
- Path
skills/evolve/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260611.0f3f8e7, committed Jun 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 7, 2026
- Size
- 14,834 bytes
- Repository stars
- 929
- License
- MIT
Research-driven multi-cycle improvement director. Forms causal hypotheses about why scores are low, validates them with scout agents before attacking, dispatches axis-parallel fleet attacks, extracts transferable patterns, and runs indefinitely within a budget envelope. Accumulates a persistent belief model and pattern library across sessions.
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
# /evolve — Improvement Director
## Orientation
**Use when:** You want sustained autonomous quality advancement — the director
forms hypotheses, scouts before attacking, and builds a belief model that
compounds across cycles. Runs until a natural ceiling, budget exhaustion, or you
say stop.
**Don't use when:** You want a single scored loop (`/improve`), a known axis
attacked directly (`/improve --axis`), or a one-time audit (`/improve --score-only`).
**Key difference from `/improve`:** `/improve` follows the rubric mechanically.
`/evolve` asks *why* scores are where they are, validates those theories before
spending fleet budget, and extracts cross-skill patterns that propagate to skills
never directly attacked.
## Invocation
```
/evolve {target} # run until ceiling, velocity drop, or budget
/evolve {target} --n={N} # exactly N director cycles then stop
/evolve {target} --budget=${X} # run until cumulative spend reaches $X
/evolve {target} --continue # resume from saved director state
/evolve {target} --status # show belief model, velocity, spend — no attack
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/evolve@sha256:c9d55a85bcd6c644The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260611.0f3f8e7, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 7, 2026 and Jun 11, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| git:20260611.0f3f8e7 latest | 2026-06-11 | 0f3f8e7 | 14,834 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.c8e4cf4 | 2026-06-11 | c8e4cf4 | 14,821 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.69b50de | 2026-06-11 | 69b50de | 14,910 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.a647953 | 2026-06-11 | a647953 | 14,653 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260507.2a8c1ae | 2026-05-07 | 2a8c1ae | 14,412 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 (14834 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
sethgammon/citadel · 929 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gih33zokedsxgvhp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sethgammon/citadel/evolve GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c9d55a85bcd6c644c2d9589ddb42cad04e7a2ac6e038e5c1df79f98518aa2b47
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.
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