improve-self SKILL.md skillA
improve-self from sergeyklay/.agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/improve-self@v1.1Pins v1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sergeyklay/.agents
- Path
.agents/skills/improve-self/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.1, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 19, 2026
- Size
- 15,541 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- Apache-2.0
Detect when a missing Agent Skill would have made the current task faster or more reliable, then scaffold a candidate SKILL.md for user review. Use after a non-trivial task when one of these signals fires: the same procedure repeated 3+ times, error recovery required inventing a workflow, the user corrected the approach (not the answer), the agent realized mid-task that a playbook did not exist, or 5+ tool calls produced what should have taken 1-2. Detects which `.{vendor}/` directories exist…
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 Self by Closing Skill Gaps This skill turns the trace of just-completed work into a question: *was there a procedure I should have had written down?* When the answer is yes, it scaffolds a candidate Agent Skill into the current project — with the human approving every write. The discipline is conservative by design. A skill created for a one-off question becomes long-term noise in the activation context of every future task. A skill created without checking existing skills becomes a duplicate and a confusion vector. A skill encoding version-specific or transient behavior becomes a permanent footgun. The bar for creation: a concrete, recurring, procedural gap that survived a check against every existing skill, with the user signing off on the draft. ## Running scripts bundled with this skill Script paths are resolved relative to **this** SKILL.md, not the agent's CWD. If a relative command (for example `python3 scripts/discover_skills.py`) fails to resolve, prefix it with the directory the platform loaded SKILL.md from. **Fallback.** If `python3` is missing or the script cannot be located, every procedure here ships a manual alternative — follow that instead. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/improve-self@sha256:90348b0cdc35723bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1, 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_wekboa3ggcicd33b)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between May 19, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1 latest | 2026-09-20 | 803ca87 | 15,541 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-09-02 | 77d0686 | 15,556 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-08-23 | 479a0c6 | 15,568 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-08-10 | 1555353 | 14,803 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-08-07 | 4fdef6e | 14,783 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-19 | eb34ee6 | 14,180 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 (15541 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
sergeyklay/.agents · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wekboa3ggcicd33b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sergeyklay/.agents/improve-self GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/90348b0cdc35723bd70dc1bde1d5400298fcf959620d8155f6f2e5ac05ca6659
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.