Enables skills to automatically improve based on usage patterns, user edits, and success rates. Provides version control with safe rollback capability.
Overview
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Reviewing how skills are performing across sessions
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Identifying patterns in user edits to skill outputs
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Applying learned improvements to skill templates
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Rolling back problematic skill changes
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Tracking skill version history and success rates
Quick Reference
| /ork:skill-evolution
| Show evolution report for all skills
| /ork:skill-evolution analyze <skill-id>
| Analyze specific skill patterns
| /ork:skill-evolution evolve <skill-id>
| Review and apply suggestions
| /ork:skill-evolution history <skill-id>
| Show version history
| /ork:skill-evolution rollback <skill-id> <version>
| Restore previous version
How It Works
The skill evolution system operates in three phases:
COLLECT ANALYZE ACT
─────── ─────── ───
┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ PostTool │──────────▶│ Evolution │──────────▶│ /ork:skill │
│ Edit │ patterns │ Analyzer │ suggest │ evolve │
│ Tracker │ │ Engine │ │ command │
└─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ edit- │ │ evolution- │ │ versions/ │
│ patterns. │ │ registry. │ │ snapshots │
│ jsonl │ │ json │ │ │
└─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘
Edit Pattern Categories
The system tracks these common edit patterns:
| add_pagination
| User adds pagination to API responses
| limit.*offset, cursor.*pagination
| add_rate_limiting
| User adds rate limiting
| rate.?limit, throttl
| add_error_handling
| User adds try/catch blocks
| try.*catch, except
| add_types
| User adds TypeScript/Python types
| interface\s, Optional
| add_validation
| User adds input validation
| validate, Pydantic, Zod
| add_logging
| User adds logging/observability
| logger\., console.log
| remove_comments
| User removes generated comments
| Pattern removal detection
| add_auth_check
| User adds authentication checks
| @auth, @require_auth
Suggestion Thresholds
| Minimum Samples | 5 | Uses before generating suggestions
| Add Threshold | 70% | Frequency to suggest adding pattern
| Auto-Apply Confidence | 85% | Confidence for auto-application
| Rollback Trigger | -20% | Success rate drop to trigger rollback
Subcommand: Report (Default)
Usage: /ork:skill-evolution
Shows evolution report for all tracked skills.
Implementation
# Run the evolution engine report
"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.claude/scripts/evolution-engine.sh" report
Sample Output
Skill Evolution Report
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Skills Summary:
┌────────────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬───────────┬────────────┐
│ Skill │ Uses │ Success │ Avg Edits │ Suggestions│
├────────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────────┼────────────┤
│ api-design-framework │ 156 │ 94% │ 1.8 │ 2 │
│ database-schema-designer │ 89 │ 91% │ 2.1 │ 1 │
│ fastapi-patterns │ 67 │ 88% │ 2.4 │ 3 │
└────────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴───────────┴────────────┘
Summary:
Skills tracked: 3
Total uses: 312
Overall success rate: 91%
Top Pending Suggestions:
1. 93% | api-design-framework | add add_pagination
2. 88% | api-design-framework | add add_rate_limiting
3. 85% | fastapi-patterns | add add_error_handling
Subcommand: Analyze
Usage: /ork:skill-evolution analyze <skill-id>
Analyzes edit patterns for a specific skill.
Implementation
# Run analysis for specific skill
"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.claude/scripts/evolution-engine.sh" analyze "$SKILL_ID"
Sample Output
Skill Analysis: api-design-framework
────────────────────────────────────
Uses: 156 | Success: 94% | Avg Edits: 1.8
Edit Patterns Detected:
┌──────────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────────┐
│ Pattern │ Freq │ Samples │ Confidence │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
│ add_pagination │ 85% │ 132/156 │ 0.93 │
│ add_rate_limiting │ 72% │ 112/156 │ 0.88 │
│ add_error_handling │ 45% │ 70/156 │ 0.56 │
└──────────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────────┘
Pending Suggestions:
1. 93% conf: ADD add_pagination to template
2. 88% conf: ADD add_rate_limiting to template
Run `/ork:skill-evolution evolve api-design-framework` to review
Subcommand: Evolve
Usage: /ork:skill-evolution evolve <skill-id>
Interactive review and application of improvement suggestions.
Implementation
When this subcommand is invoked:
- Get Suggestions:
SUGGESTIONS=$("${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.claude/scripts/evolution-engine.sh" suggest "$SKILL_ID")
- For Each Suggestion, Present Interactive Options:
Use AskUserQuestion to let the user decide on each suggestion:
{
"questions": [{
"question": "Apply suggestion: ADD add_pagination to template? (93% confidence, 132/156 users add this)",
"header": "Evolution",
"options": [
{"label": "Apply", "description": "Add this pattern to the skill template"},
{"label": "Skip", "description": "Skip for now, ask again later"},
{"label": "Reject", "description": "Never suggest this again"}
],
"multiSelect": false
}]
}
- On Apply:
Create version snapshot first
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Apply the suggestion to skill files
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Update evolution registry
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On Reject:
Mark suggestion as rejected in registry
- Won't be suggested again
Applying Suggestions
When a user accepts a suggestion, the implementation depends on the suggestion type:
For add suggestions to templates:
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Add the pattern to the skill's template files
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Update SKILL.md with new guidance
For add suggestions to references:
- Create new reference file in
references/directory
For remove suggestions:
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Remove the identified content
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Archive in version snapshot first
Subcommand: History
Usage: /ork:skill-evolution history <skill-id>
Shows version history with performance metrics.
Implementation
# Run version manager list
"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.claude/scripts/version-manager.sh" list "$SKILL_ID"
Sample Output
Version History: api-design-framework
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Current Version: 1.2.0
┌─────────┬────────────┬─────────┬───────┬───────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ Version │ Date │ Success │ Uses │ Avg Edits │ Changelog │
├─────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ 1.2.0 │ 2026-01-14 │ 94% │ 156 │ 1.8 │ Added pagination pattern │
│ 1.1.0 │ 2026-01-05 │ 89% │ 80 │ 2.3 │ Added error handling ref │
│ 1.0.0 │ 2025-11-01 │ 78% │ 45 │ 3.2 │ Initial release │
└─────────┴────────────┴─────────┴───────┴───────────┴────────────────────────────┘
Subcommand: Rollback
Usage: /ork:skill-evolution rollback <skill-id> <version>
Restores a skill to a previous version.
Implementation
- Confirm with User:
Use AskUserQuestion for confirmation:
{
"questions": [{
"question": "Rollback api-design-framework from 1.2.0 to 1.0.0? Current version will be backed up.",
"header": "Rollback",
"options": [
{"label": "Confirm Rollback", "description": "Restore version 1.0.0"},
{"label": "Cancel", "description": "Keep current version"}
],
"multiSelect": false
}]
}
- On Confirm:
"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.claude/scripts/version-manager.sh" restore "$SKILL_ID" "$VERSION"
- Report Result:
Restored api-design-framework to version 1.0.0
Previous version backed up to: versions/.backup-1.2.0-1736867234
Data Files
| .claude/feedback/edit-patterns.jsonl
| Raw edit pattern events
| JSONL (append-only)
| .claude/feedback/evolution-registry.json
| Aggregated suggestions
| JSON
| .claude/feedback/metrics.json
| Skill usage metrics
| JSON
| skills/<cat>/<name>/versions/
| Version snapshots
| Directory
| skills/<cat>/<name>/versions/manifest.json
| Version metadata
| JSON
Auto-Evolution Safety
The system includes safety mechanisms:
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Version Snapshots: Always created before changes
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Rollback Triggers: Auto-alert if success rate drops >20%
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Human Review: High-confidence suggestions require approval
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Rejection Memory: Rejected suggestions aren't re-suggested
Health Monitoring
The system monitors skill health and can trigger warnings:
WARNING: api-design-framework success rate dropped from 94% to 71%
Consider: /ork:skill-evolution rollback api-design-framework 1.1.0
References
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