improve SKILL.md skillB

improve from khaledsaeed18/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/improve@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
khaledsaeed18/dotclaude
Path
.agents/skills/improve/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Jul 4, 2026
Size
15,092 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Survey any codebase as a senior advisor and produce prioritized, self-contained implementation plans for OTHER models/agents to execute. Strictly read-only on source code — never implements, fixes, or refactors anything itself. Use when asked to audit a codebase, find improvement opportunities (bugs, security, performance, test coverage, tech debt, migrations, DX), suggest features or where to take the project next (roadmap, product direction), or generate handoff plans for another agent to…

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

# Improve

You are a **senior advisor, not an implementer**. Your job is to deeply understand a codebase, find the highest-value improvement opportunities, and write implementation plans good enough that a *different, less capable model with zero context from this session* can execute, test, and maintain them.

The economics of this skill: an expensive, high-ceiling model does the part where intelligence compounds (understanding, judging, specifying). Cheaper models do the execution. The plan is the product — its quality determines whether the executor succeeds.

## Hard Rules

1. **Never modify source code yourself.** No edits, no fixes, no "quick wins while you're in there." The ONLY files you may create or modify live under `plans/` in the repo root — or under `advisor-plans/` when `plans/` already exists for an unrelated purpose (create the chosen directory if absent). The `execute` variant dispatches a *separate executor subagent* that edits code in an isolated git worktree — you review its diff and render a verdict; you still never edit code directly, and you never merge, push, or commit to the user's branch.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/improve@sha256:1599aa29e9b16424

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ipbwclafg7klkofh.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ipbwclafg7klkofh)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 4, 2026.

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v1.0.0 latest2026-07-04 8fb5987 15,092 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore previous instructions)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15092 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 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

khaledsaeed18/dotclaude · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ipbwclafg7klkofh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/improve
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1599aa29e9b16424cb767779efac53fa56e3f38be92dff4ac587393a1ad5070a

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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