metacognitive-self-mod
Analyze and improve the improvement process. Use for detecting quality regressions and refining meta-optimization.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill metacognitive-self-mod --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Metacognitive Self-Modification Analyze the effectiveness of past skill improvements and refine the improvement process itself. This is the core innovation from the Hyperagents paper: not just improving skills, but improving HOW skills are improved. ## Context Triggers (auto-invocation) This skill should be invoked automatically when: 1. **Regression detected**: The homeostatic monitor finds a skill's evaluation window ended in `pending_rollback_review` status. The improvement made things worse -- we need to understand why. 2. **Low effectiveness rate**: When `ImprovementMemory.get_effective_strategies()` vs `get_failed_strategies()` shows effectiveness below 50%, the improvement process itself needs refinement. 3. **Degradation despite improvements**: When `PerformanceTracker.get_improvement_trend()` returns negative for a skill that was recently improved. 4. **Periodic check**: After every 10 improvement cycles (tracked via outcome count in ImprovementMemory). ### Hook integration The homeostatic monitor emits `"improvement_triggered": true` when a skill crosses the flag threshold. At that point, before dispatching the skill-improver, check if metacognitive analysis is warrante
- Context Triggers (auto-invocation)
- Hook integration
- When To Use (Manual)
- When NOT To Use
- Workflow
- Step 1: Load improvement data
- Step 2: Classify improvement outcomes
- Step 3: Extract meta-patterns
- Step 4: Analyze improvement trends
- Step 5: Generate strategy recommendations
- Step 6: Store meta-insights
- Step 7: Update skill-improver strategy
- Output
- Related
Check for improvement memory if [ ! -f "$MEMORY_FILE" ]; then echo "No improvement memory found." echo "Run skill-improver first to generate improvement data." exit 0 fi
What does the metacognitive-self-mod skill do?
Analyze and improve the improvement process. Use for detecting quality regressions and refining meta-optimization.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill metacognitive-self-mod --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.
