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self-improvement
Captures learnings, errors, corrections, and feature requests to enable continuous improvement. Use when: (1) User corrects Claude ('No, that's wrong...', 'Actually...'), (2) User requests a capability that doesn't exist, (3) Claude realizes its knowledge is outdated or incorrect, (4) A better approach is discovered for a recurring task, (5) Receiving a Handoff block from self-healing (a recurring verified heal at Recurrence-Count >= 3) to distill into a memory file or new skill. For ACTIVE runtime failures where the agent needs to apply and verify a fix mid-task, use self-healing instead (it files HEAL- entries with proof; self-improvement promotes accumulated patterns). Also review learnings before major tasks. For CI-only/headless learning capture, use self-improvement-ci.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/self-improvement-hz8jo6/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/self-improvement-hz8jo6/SKILL.md # every project
- 3
Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

