Illustrative cover generated by us — see the source repo for real examples.
How to use
- 1
Copy the install prompt
Sign in, then click the black button. One click, done.
- 2
Paste it to your agent
Send it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar. It installs itself.
- 3
Ask in one sentence
Say what you want, like below, and the agent follows this skill.
/darwin-skill make me: Authors maintaining their own skillsExample message showing how to invoke it, not a real output.
What you get
- A multi-dimension rubric for SKILL.md quality
- Hill-climbing edits tracked in git
- Blind evaluation and human checkpoints
Good fit
- Authors maintaining their own skills
Not for
- People who only install skills
What you need
- A git repo for the skill being optimized
- License
- MIT
- Author
- @alchaincyf
- Source
- alchaincyf/darwin-skill · ★ 6,176
Upstream description
Darwin Skill 2.0 (达尔文.skill 2.0): autonomous skill optimizer, v2.0 integrates Microsoft Research SkillLens (arXiv 2605.23899) 9-dim rubric + SkillOpt (arXiv 2605.23904) validation-gated design + human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Evaluates SKILL.md files using a 9-dimension rubric (structure + effectiveness + meta-skill blacklists), runs hill-climbing with git version control, spawns independent…
Other ways to install
Prefer doing it yourself? These commands do the same as the button.
Read https://skilloop.dev/skills/darwin-skill/install.md and follow the instructions to install the skill.
npx skills add https://github.com/alchaincyf/darwin-skill -g -a claude-code
npx skills add https://github.com/alchaincyf/darwin-skill -g -a codex
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alchaincyf/darwin-skill.git /tmp/darwin-skill mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/darwin-skill ~/.claude/skills/darwin-skill
Original work by its authors, redistributed under its license. We only link and describe it.
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