SkillOpt

MIT skills optimizer — trains skill.md as params for frozen agents

AI Agents / Skills · OSS/MIT · 18.5k

Reviewed 2026-09-30 · last push 2026-10-18 · repo checked 2026-10-19

What's Good

MIT (microsoft/SkillOpt). `pip install skillopt` (PyPI) plus research checkout path. Treats `best_skill.md` as the adapter: trajectory-driven edits, textual learning-rate budget, validation gate, deployable artifact. BYO LLM backends (OpenAI/Azure/Claude/Qwen/…). SkillOpt-Sleep companion for offline session harvest. Not a paid wall — bring your own keys and verifiers.

The Catch

★17,883 in about 70 weeks (~255 a week): judge it on the optimizer loop, not the star count. Vs Superpowers / agent-skills (Addy) / Matt Pocock skills packs: those ship hand-authored SKILL.md workflows and session methodology; SkillOpt trains/evolves skills as parameters for frozen agents. Training burns provider tokens; plugin shells for Claude/Codex/etc. live in-repo more than in the PyPI wheel.

Verdict

MIT skill trainer when frozen agents need evolved skill.md — not another hand-pack; ignore the star spike.

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