metacognitive-self-mod SKILL.md skillA
metacognitive-self-mod from athola/claude-night-market is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/metacognitive-self-mod@git:20260813.0bee82ePins git:20260813.0bee82e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- athola/claude-night-market
- Path
plugins/abstract/skills/metacognitive-self-mod/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260813.0bee82e, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 29, 2026
- Size
- 8,898 bytes
- Repository stars
- 348
- License
- MIT
Analyze and improve the improvement process. Use for detecting regressions and meta-optimization.
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
# Metacognitive Self-Modification ## Overview Analyze the effectiveness of past skill improvements and refine the improvement process itself. This is the core innovation from the Hyperagents paper: not just improving skills, but improving HOW skills are improved. ## Context Triggers (auto-invocation) This skill should be invoked automatically when: 1. **Regression detected**: The homeostatic monitor finds a skill's evaluation window ended in `pending_rollback_review` status. The improvement made things worse, and we need to understand why. 2. **Low effectiveness rate**: When `ImprovementMemory.get_effective_strategies()` vs `get_failed_strategies()` shows effectiveness below 50%, the improvement process itself needs refinement. 3. **Degradation despite improvements**: When `PerformanceTracker.get_improvement_trend()` returns negative for a skill that was recently improved. 4. **Periodic check**: After every 10 improvement cycles (tracked via outcome count in ImprovementMemory). ### Hook integration The homeostatic monitor emits `"improvement_triggered": true` when a skill crosses the flag threshold. At that point, before dispatching the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/metacognitive-self-mod@sha256:709399359d2de90cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.0bee82e, 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 29, 2026 and Aug 13, 2026, about one every 19 days.
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| git:20260813.0bee82e latest | 2026-08-13 | 0bee82e | 8,898 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.e7e9ab8 | 2026-07-26 | e7e9ab8 | 8,902 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.63c6c16 | 2026-06-22 | 63c6c16 | 8,867 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260601.8d67212 | 2026-06-01 | 8d67212 | 8,170 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260529.62f598e | 2026-05-29 | 62f598e | 8,169 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
athola/claude-night-market · 348 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sxau3cowrrewu3ol GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=athola/claude-night-market/metacognitive-self-mod GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/709399359d2de90c944c452994299fdb1479ca25bb08365ffc0b4717690b4ff3
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