evolve-skill

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Evolve Skill

HARD GATE — No skill change ships without benchmark score ≥ pre-change baseline. Learning is measured and versioned — never implicit.

Loop

1. Regression gate — Run bash scripts/run-verification-gates.sh to catch mechanical regressions (compliance, sync pipeline, size budget) before spending time on benchmark evals. If golden suite fails, fix regressions first — they are pre-requisites for any capability improvement.

2. Establish baseline — Run run-benchmark <skill> --baseline. If no definition exists at specs/benchmarks/<skill>.yaml, create one following specs/benchmarks/SCHEMA.md first. Save report path in state.yaml. If specs/benchmarks/reports/BASELINE-<skill>.yaml already exists, skip this step.

3. Identify gap — Read the baseline report (specs/benchmarks/reports/BASELINE-<skill>.yaml). Find scenarios with result: FAIL or low pass_at_k. This is the measurable gap.

4. plan-work — Write a minimal change proposal targeting the failing scenarios. Include verify commands.

5. Edit via craft-skill / direct SKILL.md edit; run bash scripts/sync-skills.sh.

6. Re-run benchmark — run-benchmark <skill>. Compare new pass_at_k against baseline.

   • IMPROVED or STABLE → advance to step 6.
   • REGRESSION (new pass_at_k < baseline) → revert the change and loop back to step 3.

7. Record decision — Write specs/adr/NNNN-evolve-<skill>.md with before/after pass_at_k scores. Update session-state.

Verify

→ verify: test -d specs/benchmarks && test -f skills/run-benchmark/SKILL.md

See REFERENCE.md for ADR template.

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Evolve Skill — ADR snippet

## ADR-XXXX: Evolve <skill-name>

**Status:** Accepted
**Benchmark:** before X% / after Y%
**Change:** one-sentence summary
**Evidence:** path/to/benchmark-report.md

Benchmark repo: bigpowers-benchmark — resolve the local clone on this machine; clone it from wherever your fork lives if absent. Never assume a hard-coded absolute path or a specific owner.