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microsoft/SkillOpt

SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen LLM agents through trajectory-driven edits, validation-gated updates, and deployable best_skill.md artifacts.

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git clone --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git .hotskills/microsoft-skillopt && git -C .hotskills/microsoft-skillopt checkout --detach 01e41dbcdf9ea6e20d6428c152c14178bd1c80f3 # Copy each selected skill directory from .hotskills/microsoft-skillopt into .claude/skills/<skill-name>/
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How it works

skillopt-sleep

When your agent uses it

Use when the user wants their Claude agent to self-improve from past usage, asks about a nightly/offline 'sleep' or 'dream' cycle, memory/skill consolidation, or says things like 'make my agent better the more I use it', 'review my past sessions', 'learn my preferences', 'consolidate what you learned', 'run the sleep cycle', or wants to schedule background self-optimization. Drives the skillopt_sleep engine: harvest past sessions -> mine recurring tasks -> replay through a selected backend -> consolidate validated CLAUDE.md/SKILL.md behind a held-out gate.

What it loads into context

Frontmatter

132 tokens

Always available to the agent

SKILL.md

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When the skill is activated

Reference documents

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Loaded on request

Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.

The playbook

  1. When to use this skill
  2. The cycle (six stages)
  3. How to drive it
  4. Common CLI flags
  5. Config keys (`~/.skillopt-sleep/config.json`)
  6. Memory consolidation
  7. Hard rules
  8. Validate / demo

Scripts executed separately

  • ../../scripts/sleep.sh
  • ../../scripts/sleep.sh
  • ../../scripts/sleep.sh
  • ../../../run-sleep.sh

Files

  • ../../.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonasset1,157 bytes
  • ../../.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonasset877 bytes
  • ../../hooks/hooks.jsonasset273 bytes
  • ../../scripts/sleep.shruns1,369 bytes
  • ../../scripts/sleep.shruns1,369 bytes
  • ../../scripts/sleep.shruns1,369 bytes
  • SKILL.mdcore9,054 bytes
  • SKILL.mdcore9,054 bytes
  • SKILL.mdcore9,054 bytes
  • ../../../run-sleep.shruns3,602 bytes
Read SKILL.md

# SkillOpt-Sleep: usage-driven self-evolution for a local Claude agent

SkillOpt-Sleep gives the user's agent a **sleep cycle**. On demand or on a
nightly schedule, it reviews real past Claude Code sessions, re-runs recurring
tasks through the selected backend, and consolidates what it
learns into **memory** (`CLAUDE.md`) and **skills** (`SKILL.md`). With the
default validation gate enabled, it keeps only changes that improve a held-out
score. Live files change only through explicit adoption or a user-requested
`--auto-adopt`. It aims to improve this user's recurring work, while making
each accepted proposal measurable on the run's held-out tasks,
with no model-weight training. It is the deployment-time analogue of training:
short-term experience → long-term competence.

It synthesizes three ideas:
View the complete source on GitHub

Skills included

  • skillopt-sleep
  • skillopt-sleep
  • skillopt-sleep
  • skillopt-sleep
  • skillopt-sleep

Repository facts

License
MIT
Created
May 8, 2026
Last pushed
Nov 5, 2026
Forks
1,800
Open issues
32
Project activity
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Before you install

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docs/sleep/README.md

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    > **Preview.** This is an early preview we are actively iterating on; interfaces and > defaults may change. The engine lives in the top-level [`skillopt_sleep/`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/skillopt_sleep)
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    > defaults may change. The engine lives in the top-level [`skillopt_sleep/`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/skillopt_sleep)
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    One engine, thin per-agent shells (see [`plugins/`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins)):
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    | Platform | Folder | Install | |---|---|---| | **Claude Code** | [`plugins/claude-code`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/claude-code) | `/plugin marketplace add ./plugins/claude-code` → `/skillopt-sleep` |
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    |---|---|---| | **Claude Code** | [`plugins/claude-code`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/claude-code) | `/plugin marketplace add ./plugins/claude-code` → `/skillopt-sleep` | | **Codex** | [`plugins/codex`](https://g
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    | **Claude Code** | [`plugins/claude-code`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/claude-code) | `/plugin marketplace add ./plugins/claude-code` → `/skillopt-sleep` |
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    | **Codex** | [`plugins/codex`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/codex) | `bash plugins/codex/install.sh` → `skillopt-sleep` skill |
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    | **Cursor** | [`plugins/cursor`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/cursor) | `bash plugins/cursor/install.sh` → `/skillopt-sleep` |
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    | **Copilot** | [`plugins/copilot`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/copilot) | register `plugins/copilot/mcp_server.py` as an MCP server |
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    | **Devin** | [`plugins/devin`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/devin) | register `plugins/devin/mcp_server.py` as an MCP server |
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    | **OpenClaw** | [`plugins/openclaw`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/openclaw) | adapt the reference wrapper and paths for your installation |
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    For model calls, install and configure OpenCode using its [official documentation](https://opencode.ai/docs/), then confirm the CLI is
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    [official documentation](https://opencode.ai/docs/), then confirm the CLI is
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    **(a) End-to-end on real agents — [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals) `skillopt-v1`.**
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    See the [SkillOpt documentation index](../index.md), the [CLI reference](../reference/cli.md), and the integration-specific READMEs under [`plugins/`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins).
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    [`plugins/`](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins).

plugins/claude-code/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

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    {   "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/marketplace.schema.json",
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    "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/marketplace.schema.json",
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    "source": {         "source": "git-subdir",         "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git",
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    "source": "git-subdir",         "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git",         "path": "plugins/claude-code",
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    "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git",
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    "ref": "main"       },       "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt"
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    },       "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt"     }
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    "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt"

plugins/claude-code/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

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    "email": "yifanyang@microsoft.com"   },   "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt",
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    },   "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt",   "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt",
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    "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt",
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    "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt",

plugins/claude-code/scripts/sleep.sh

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    #!/usr/bin/env bash
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plugins/claude-code/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md

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    See the [SkillOpt-Sleep documentation](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/docs/sleep)

plugins/codex/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md

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    benchmark evidence for that configuration, not a guarantee for other skills, tasks, or models; see the [recorded results](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/blob/main/docs/sleep/RESULTS.md)
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    tasks, or models; see the [recorded results](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/blob/main/docs/sleep/RESULTS.md) for context and limitations.
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    [recorded results](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/blob/main/docs/sleep/RESULTS.md)

plugins/dsh/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md

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    SkillOpt-Sleep is Microsoft's [SkillOpt](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt)
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    See the [SkillOpt-Sleep docs](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/docs/sleep)

plugins/openclaw/README.md

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    This directory is a contributed reference for connecting [SkillOpt-Sleep](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt) to
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    [SkillOpt-Sleep](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt) to
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    [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw) with a custom DeepSeek/Ollama
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    git clone https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git

plugins/openclaw/run_sleep.py

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    #!/usr/bin/env python3

plugins/openclaw/run_sleep_cron.sh

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    #!/bin/bash
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plugins/openclaw/skillopt_sleep_openclaw.py

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    """Call DeepSeek V4 Pro via curl + jq. No extra Python deps needed."""
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    "stream": False,     }     req = urllib.request.Request(
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    }     req = urllib.request.Request(         f"{base}/chat/completions",
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    req = urllib.request.Request(
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    )     try:         with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180) as resp:
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    try:         with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180) as resp:             data = _json.loads(resp.read().decode("utf-8"))
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    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180) as resp:
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    try:         req = urllib.request.Request(
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    req = urllib.request.Request(
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    "http://127.0.0.1:11434/api/embeddings",
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    headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},         )         with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:
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    )         with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:             data = _json.loads(resp.read().decode("utf-8"))
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    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:

plugins/openclaw/slash_sleep.py

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    #!/usr/bin/env python3

plugins/openclaw/tests/devops-tasks.json

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    "rubric": "Score 1.0 if output matches the exact format [STATUS] devops-agent | Site Uptime \u2192 geoxylia.com OK (200) | DD/MM HH:MM MYT, with a real current time. Score 0.5 if format is close but missing one field. Score 0.0 if wrong for
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    "project": "devops-infrastructure-check",     "intent": "Site Uptime check. Run: `curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{http_code}' https://geoxylia.com`. Interpret the result 200, and report in our standard format: 'STATUS | TASK \u2192 RESULT | TIME
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    "intent": "Site Uptime check. Run: `curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{http_code}' https://geoxylia.com`. Interpret the result 200, and report in our standard format: 'STATUS | TASK \u2192 RESULT | TIME'. If not 200, escalate.",

plugins/run-sleep.sh

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    #!/usr/bin/env bash

How the signals fit together

Facts from a static read of the files at the pinned commit. They describe what the code does, not why.

Some files could not be read; the facts below still hold.

Declared and executed: 1 fact
Signal confidence: 58 facts

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Works with

Agent compatibility, from the files in this repository
AgentStatusEvidenceInstall to
Claude CodeNativeManifest plugins/claude-code/.claude-plugin/plugin.json.claude/skills/<skill-name>/
CodexCompatibleStandard SKILL.md plugins/claude-code/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md.agents/skills/<skill-name>/
CursorCompatibleStandard SKILL.md plugins/claude-code/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/
Gemini CLICompatibleStandard SKILL.md plugins/claude-code/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md.gemini/skills/<skill-name>/
GitHub CopilotCompatibleStandard SKILL.md plugins/claude-code/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md.github/skills/<skill-name>/
OpenCodeCompatibleStandard SKILL.md plugins/claude-code/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md.opencode/skills/<skill-name>/
  • Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
  • Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
  • Unknown No evidence either way.

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