self-improving-agent

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name: "self-improving-agent"
description: "Curate Claude Code's auto-memory into durable project knowledge. Analyze MEMORY.md for patterns, promote proven learnings to CLAUDE.md and .claude/rules/, extract recurring solutions into reusable skills. Use when: (1) reviewing what Claude has learned about your project, (2) graduating a pattern from notes to enforced rules, (3) turning a debugging solution into a skill, (4) checking memory health and capacity."
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# Self-Improving Agent

> Auto-memory captures. This plugin curates.

Claude Code's auto-memory (v2.1.32+) automatically records project patterns, debugging insights, and your preferences in `MEMORY.md`. This plugin adds the intelligence layer: it analyzes what Claude has learned, promotes proven patterns into project rules, and extracts recurring solutions into reusable skills.

## Quick Reference

| Command | What it does |
|---------|-------------|
| `/si:memory-review` | Analyze MEMORY.md — find promotion candidates, stale entries, consolidation opportunities |
| `/si:promote` | Graduate a pattern from MEMORY.md → CLAUDE.md or `.claude/rules/` |
| `/si:extract` | Turn a proven pattern into a standalone skill |
| `/si:memory-status` | Memory health dashboard — line counts, topic files, recommendations |
| `/si:remember` | Explicitly save important knowledge to auto-memory |

## How It Fits Together

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Claude Code Memory Stack                │
├─────────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────────────┤
│  CLAUDE.md  │   Auto Memory    │   Session Memory       │
│  (you write)│   (Claude writes)│   (Claude writes)      │
│  Rules &    │   MEMORY.md      │   Conversation logs    │
│  standards  │   + topic files  │   + continuity         │
│  Full load  │   First 200 lines│   Contextual load      │
├─────────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────────────┤
│              ↑ /si:promote        ↑ /si:memory-review   │
│         Self-Improving Agent (this plugin)               │
│              ↓ /si:extract    ↓ /si:remember            │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  .claude/rules/    │    New Skills    │   Error Logs     │
│  (scoped rules)    │    (extracted)   │   (auto-captured)│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

## Installation

### Claude Code (Plugin)
```
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install self-improving-agent@claude-code-skills
```

### OpenClaw
```bash
clawhub install self-improving-agent
```

### Codex CLI
```bash
./scripts/codex-install.sh --skill self-improving-agent
```

## Memory Architecture

### Where things live

| File | Who writes | Scope | Loaded |
|------|-----------|-------|--------|
| `./CLAUDE.md` | You (+ `/si:promote`) | Project rules | Full file, every session |
| `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` | You | Global preferences | Full file, every session |
| `~/.claude/projects/<path>/memory/MEMORY.md` | Claude (auto) | Project learnings | First 200 lines |
| `~/.claude/projects/<path>/memory/*.md` | Claude (overflow) | Topic-specific notes | On demand |
| `.claude/rules/*.md` | You (+ `/si:promote`) | Scoped rules | When matching files open |

### The promotion lifecycle

```
1. Claude discovers pattern → auto-memory (MEMORY.md)
2. Pattern recurs 2-3x → /si:memory-review flags it as promotion candidate
3. You approve → /si:promote graduates it to CLAUDE.md or rules/
4. Pattern becomes an enforced rule, not just a note
5. MEMORY.md entry removed → frees space for new learnings
```

## Core Concepts

### Auto-memory is capture, not curation

Auto-memory is excellent at recording what Claude learns. But it has no judgment about:
- Which learnings are temporary vs. permanent
- Which patterns should become enforced rules
- When the 200-line limit is wasting space on stale entries
- Which solutions are good enough to become reusable skills

That's what this plugin does.

### Promotion = g