/============================================================================/ /* SKILL SKILL :: VERILINGUA x VERIX EDITION / /============================================================================*/

name: SKILL version: 1.0.0 description: | [assert|neutral] SKILL skill for foundry workflows [ground:given] [conf:0.95] [state:confirmed] category: foundry tags:

• general author: system cognitive_frame: primary: compositional goal_analysis: first_order: "Execute SKILL workflow" second_order: "Ensure quality and consistency" third_order: "Enable systematic foundry processes"

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S0 META-IDENTITY / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] SKILL := { name: "SKILL", category: "foundry", version: "1.0.0", layer: L1 } [ground:given] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S1 COGNITIVE FRAME / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] COGNITIVE_FRAME := { frame: "Compositional", source: "German", force: "Build from primitives?" } [ground:cognitive-science] [conf:0.92] [state:confirmed]

Kanitsal Cerceve (Evidential Frame Activation)

Kaynak dogrulama modu etkin.

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S2 TRIGGER CONDITIONS / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] TRIGGER_POSITIVE := { keywords: ["SKILL", "foundry", "workflow"], context: "user needs SKILL capability" } [ground:given] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S3 CORE CONTENT / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Recursive Improvement - Meta-Loop Skill

Kanitsal Cerceve (Evidential Frame Activation)

Kaynak dogrulama modu etkin.

name: recursive-improvement description: Self-improving meta-loop that audits and enhances skills, prompts, and expertise files category: foundry version: 2.0.0 triggers:

• "improve skill"
• "audit skill"
• "run improvement cycle"
• "meta-loop"
• "self-improve" mcp_servers: required: [memory-mcp] optional: [connascence-analyzer]

Trigger Keywords

USE WHEN user mentions:

• "improve skill", "audit skill", "enhance skill", "optimize skill"
• "run improvement cycle", "meta-loop", "self-improve"
• "skill quality check", "documentation audit"
• "recursive improvement", "systematic improvement"
• "batch improve skills", "improve all skills"
• "skill missing [section]", "incomplete documentation"

DO NOT USE when:

• User wants to CREATE a new skill - use skill-creator-agent or micro-skill-creator
• User wants to CREATE an agent - use agent-creator
• User wants to improve a PROMPT (not skill) - use prompt-architect
• User wants one-off manual fix - direct editing faster
• Eval-harness benchmarks failing - fix root cause first, not improve on broken baseline
• During active feature development - finish feature, then improve

Instead use:

• skill-creator-agent when creating new skills from scratch
• agent-creator when creating new agents
• prompt-architect when optimizing prompts
• skill-forge when applying specific improvements (recursive-improvement coordinates it)

Overview

The Recursive Improvement skill orchestrates the meta-loop that enables the system to improve itself. It coordinates four specialized auditors (skill-auditor, prompt-auditor, expertise-auditor, output-auditor) to detect issues, generate improvement proposals, apply changes via skill-forge, and validate results through the frozen eval-harness.

Key Constraint: The eval-harness is FROZEN - it never self-improves. This prevents Goodhart's Law (optimizing the metric instead of the goal).

When to Use

Use When:

• Skill documentation is incomplete (missing Core Principles, Anti-Patterns, Conclusion)
• Prompt quality has degraded (inconsistent outputs, missing constraints)
• Expertise files are outdated (file locations changed, patterns stale)
• Output quality has dropped (theater code, unvalidated claims)

Do Not Use:

• For one-off fixes (use direct editing)
• When eval-harness benchmarks are failing (fix root cause first)
• During active feature development (finish feature first)

Core Principles

Recursive Improvement operates on 3 fundamental principles:

Principle 1: Frozen Eval Harness Prevents Goodhart's Law

The evaluation harness that gates all improvements is NEVER self-improved. This ensures the system optimizes for genuine quality, not for passing corrupted benchmarks.

In practice:

• Eval-harness benchmarks are defined externally and versioned separately
• Changes to eval-harness require human approval and audit trail
• All improvement proposals are tested against frozen benchmarks before commit

Principle 2: Propose-Test-Compare-Commit Pipeline

Every improvement follows a rigorous pipeline: propose changes, test against benchmarks, compare to baseline, commit only if better. No direct edits bypass this pipeline.

In practice:

• Auditors generate structured proposals with predicted improvement deltas
• skill-forge applies proposals in sandbox before production
• A/B comparison ensures new version outperforms baseline
• Rollback available for 30 days if regressions discovered later

Principle 3: Documentation Completeness Is Non-Negotiable

Skills are not production-ready until they pass documentation audit (100% Tier 1, 100% Tier 2). Missing sections are auto-generated using templates from SKILL-AUDIT-PROTOCOL.md.

In practice:

• Every skill audit checks for Core Principles, Anti-Patterns, Conclusion
• Missing sections trigger auto-generation using domain-specific t

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S4 SUCCESS CRITERIA / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] SUCCESS_CRITERIA := { primary: "Skill execution completes successfully", quality: "Output meets quality thresholds", verification: "Results validated against requirements" } [ground:given] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S5 MCP INTEGRATION / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] MCP_INTEGRATION := { memory_mcp: "Store execution results and patterns", tools: ["mcp__memory-mcp__memory_store", "mcp__memory-mcp__vector_search"] } [ground:witnessed:mcp-config] [conf:0.95] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S6 MEMORY NAMESPACE / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] MEMORY_NAMESPACE := { pattern: "skills/foundry/SKILL/{project}/{timestamp}", store: ["executions", "decisions", "patterns"], retrieve: ["similar_tasks", "proven_patterns"] } [ground:system-policy] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

[define|neutral] MEMORY_TAGGING := { WHO: "SKILL-{session_id}", WHEN: "ISO8601_timestamp", PROJECT: "{project_name}", WHY: "skill-execution" } [ground:system-policy] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S7 SKILL COMPLETION VERIFICATION / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[direct|emphatic] COMPLETION_CHECKLIST := { agent_spawning: "Spawn agents via Task()", registry_validation: "Use registry agents only", todowrite_called: "Track progress with TodoWrite", work_delegation: "Delegate to specialized agents" } [ground:system-policy] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S8 ABSOLUTE RULES / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[direct|emphatic] RULE_NO_UNICODE := forall(output): NOT(unicode_outside_ascii) [ground:windows-compatibility] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

[direct|emphatic] RULE_EVIDENCE := forall(claim): has(ground) AND has(confidence) [ground:verix-spec] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

[direct|emphatic] RULE_REGISTRY := forall(agent): agent IN AGENT_REGISTRY [ground:system-policy] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* PROMISE / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[commit|confident] SKILL_VERILINGUA_VERIX_COMPLIANT [ground:self-validation] [conf:0.99] [state:confirmed]