self-improvement-loops SKILL.md skillA
self-improvement-loops from docxology/template is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add docxology/template/self-improvement-loops@git:20260713.397aa15Pins git:20260713.397aa15 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- docxology/template
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- License
- Apache-2.0
This skill should be used when the harness, scaffold, workflow, or optimizer itself is the optimization target: recursive self-improvement (RSI) loops, meta-harnesses, self-improving harnesses that mine their own failures and propose bounded edits, evolutionary or population-based search over agent scaffolds, acceptance gates for self-modifying systems, and agentic context evolution where the mechanism that produces context is versioned and evolved. Route governance of a single autonomous loop…
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What the file says
# Self-Improvement Loops This skill covers systems where the harness is the artifact being optimized: an agent mines its own failures and edits its own scaffold, a meta-agent searches over harness code, a population of workflow candidates evolves against an evaluator, or the mechanism that produces context is itself versioned and improved. The design question shifts from "how do I control one loop" (harness-engineering) to "how do I let a loop rewrite parts of itself without corrupting the signal that steers it". The controlling constraint across every published system: the loop optimizes whatever signal it is given, including the signal's own weaknesses. Design the loop assuming the optimizer will find every gap between the metric and the intent. ## When to Activate Activate this skill when: - Building a loop where an agent proposes edits to its own harness, prompts, context playbook, or workflow based on mined failure patterns - Designing meta-level search over harness or scaffold code: meta-agent search, tree search over workflow graphs, evolutionary program search with an LLM mutation operator - Choosing acceptance criteria for any self-modifying agent system …
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How to install
mdr add docxology/template/self-improvement-loops@sha256:6999267207013a8dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260713.397aa15, 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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Source
docxology/template · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
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