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smfworks/skillopt-content — explained in plain English

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In one sentence

A toolkit that improves an AI writing agent's skill instructions over time through bounded, checked text edits, inspired by the SkillOpt research paper.

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    What it does
      Bounded skill edits
      Validation gate
      Rejected edit buffer
    Tech stack
      Python
    Use cases
      Improve agent skills
      Test loop plumbing
      Pre publish checklist
    Audience
      AI agent builders
    License
      MIT

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Iteratively improve a written AI agent skill using bounded add/delete/replace edits.

USE CASE 2

Try out the SkillOpt-style training loop offline with the included mock scorer.

USE CASE 3

Use the pre-publish checklist to review longform writing before it ships.

USE CASE 4

Plug in a custom scorer, such as an LLM judge, human ratings, or product metrics, to get real quality gains.

What is it built with?

Python

How does it compare?

smfworks/skillopt-content0xallam/my-recipe0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch
Stars00
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2022-11-22
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity2/52/54/5
Audiencedevelopergeneraldeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

The bundled scorer is a mock, real use requires wiring in your own evaluator.

You can use, copy, and modify the code freely for any purpose as long as you keep the original copyright notice.

So what is it?

skillopt-content is a small toolkit for improving the written instructions, or skills, that an AI writing agent follows, without ever touching the AI model itself. It applies an approach inspired by a research paper called SkillOpt, treating a skill document like a piece of text that can be gradually edited and improved through a repeatable, checked process, rather than something a person has to perfect by hand. The core idea works in a loop: the current skill document is run against a set of training articles, the system proposes a limited number of add, delete, or replace edits to the skill text, those edits are applied, and then the updated skill is checked against a separate held out set of articles. An edit is only kept if it strictly improves the score on that held out set, edits that fail are stored in a rejected edit buffer instead of being thrown away, so the system does not keep proposing the same failed idea again. The repository includes a generic edit planning skill template, a pre publish checklist for reviewing any piece of public writing, and a small before and after example showing what one accepted skill update looks like in practice. It deliberately does not include any organization's private voice rules, so those are meant to be kept in a separate private profile rather than committed to this shared repository. Importantly, the scoring system that ships in this kit by default is only a simple deterministic mock used to test that the loop's plumbing works correctly. It is explicitly not a real quality evaluator, so anyone who wants genuine improvement needs to plug in their own scorer, whether that is another AI model acting as a judge, human ratings, or real product metrics, before trusting the results. The project is released under the MIT license, a short permissive license that lets you use, copy, and modify the code freely as long as you keep the original copyright notice.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me run the SkillOpt-style loop in this repo on my own set of training articles.
Prompt 2
Show me how to write a custom scorer to replace the default mock scorer.
Prompt 3
Explain how the rejected-edit buffer keeps this loop from repeating failed edits.
Prompt 4
Walk me through copying skill_template.md into my own agent skill directory.

Frequently asked questions

What is skillopt-content?

A toolkit that improves an AI writing agent's skill instructions over time through bounded, checked text edits, inspired by the SkillOpt research paper.

What language is skillopt-content written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python.

What license does skillopt-content use?

You can use, copy, and modify the code freely for any purpose as long as you keep the original copyright notice.

How hard is skillopt-content to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is skillopt-content for?

Mainly developer.

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