Self Improving Agent

Self-Improving Agent

Use this skill after a workflow task has completed review in this Android repository. It extracts reusable lessons, writes them into the skill's own memory/, and recommends whether a follow-up docs/skills workflow should adopt those lessons.

Purpose

• Extract one structured episode from the current workflow's active task state file, Execution Contract, Evidence, and Gaps
• Identify reusable workflow / docs / skills lessons and turn them into candidate patterns
• Maintain repo-local memory instead of taking over active workflow state
• Recommend an adoption path without directly modifying other rule assets

When To Use

Use this skill when:

• ac-review has completed and the task is moving into summary
• Repeated mistakes, repeated unfreezes, cross-document drift, or recurring validation gaps appear
• Review has produced stable lessons worth turning into checklist or rule suggestions
• The user explicitly asks for a retrospective, self-improvement, or skill improvement

Do not use this skill when:

• ac-review has not happened yet
• The task is still in ac-execute
• The signal is one-off noise with no reusable lesson
• Someone is trying to use it as a background auto-corrector or auto-submission pipeline

Inputs

Required inputs:

• .agents/state/INDEX.md
• the active task state file under .agents/state/tasks/
• AGENTS.md
• .agents/skills/ac-workflow/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-memory/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-plan/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-execute/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-review/SKILL.md

Optional inputs:

• Files listed in the current Execution Contract
• Related docs/*.md files or target SKILL.md files when the task touches workflow / docs / skills assets

Primary evidence sources:

• Key decision log
• Evidence
• Gaps
• Execution Contract
• Actual changed files

Process

1. Confirm review is complete.

• If the active task state file does not contain enough Evidence or Gaps, stop and return to the caller.

2. Extract one episode.

• Task type
• Route (single / single + reviewer / planner -> executor -> reviewer)
• Key files
• Key decisions
• Checks that actually ran
• Residual risks

3. Evaluate reusable knowledge.

• Generate a candidate pattern only when:
• The same class of issue repeats
• A rule omission caused rework or confusion
• A clear cross-document inconsistency was found
• A checklist improvement has sufficient evidence behind it

4. Persist only self-owned memory.

• Write to memory/episodes/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.json
• Update memory/pattern-candidates.json
• Update memory/working/latest-summary.md
• Update memory/semantic-patterns.json only when a pattern is validated

5. Recommend adoption path.

• none
• manual-review
• start-docs-workflow

Outputs

Episode

Record one structured retrospective for a workflow task, including at least:

• Task summary
• Route
• Changed files
• Decisions and evidence
• Residual risks
• Related candidate patterns

Candidate Patterns

Each candidate pattern must include at least:

• id
• title
• summary
• confidence
• evidence_source
• suggested_targets
• adoption_status

Learning Summary

Output a short user-facing summary that includes:

• What was learned
• Why it is reusable
• Which files are the suggested targets
• Whether another docs/skills workflow is recommended

Hard Rules

• Do not modify AGENTS.md, .agents/state/INDEX.md, active task state files, docs/*.md, or other skills directly.
• Do not auto-commit, auto-push, or auto-create PR.
• Do not invent evidence that is not present in the active task state file or changed files.
• Do not generalize from one-off noise.
• Treat the active task state file as the workflow source of truth for the current task.
• If adoption requires repo rule changes, ask for a separate docs/skills workflow task.

Pattern Quality Bar

A candidate pattern must meet all of the following:

• Clear provenance
• A problem statement and solution that can be restated plainly
• Clear applicability boundaries
• A mapping to concrete target files
• No conflict with current AGENTS.md or ac-* workflow rules

Suggested Targets In This Repo

Prioritize these assets in this repository:

• AGENTS.md
• .agents/skills/ac-workflow/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-memory/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-plan/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-execute/SKILL.md
• .agents/skills/ac-review/SKILL.md
• docs/*.md in the workflow / review / template area

See Also

• references/integration.md
• references/appendix.md
• memory/semantic-patterns.json
• memory/pattern-candidates.json