Tracks skill usage patterns, edit frequency, and success rates to suggest improvements and optimizations. Manages skill versioning with safe rollback capability and confidence scoring for suggestions. Use when reviewing skill performance, applying auto-suggested changes, or rolling back problematic versions.

Skill Evolution Manager

Enables skills to automatically improve based on usage patterns, user edits, and success rates. Provides version control with safe rollback capability.

Overview

Reviewing how skills are performing across sessions
Identifying patterns in user edits to skill outputs
Applying learned improvements to skill templates
Rolling back problematic skill changes
Tracking skill version history and success rates

Quick Reference

Command	Description
`/ork:skill-evolution`	Show evolution report for all skills
`/ork:skill-evolution analyze <skill-id>`	Analyze specific skill patterns
`/ork:skill-evolution evolve <skill-id>`	Review and apply suggestions
`/ork:skill-evolution history <skill-id>`	Show version history
`/ork:skill-evolution rollback <skill-id> <version>`	Restore previous version

How It Works

The skill evolution system operates in three phases:

COLLECT                    ANALYZE                    ACT
───────                    ───────                    ───
┌─────────────┐           ┌─────────────┐           ┌─────────────┐
│ PostTool    │──────────▶│ Evolution   │──────────▶│ /ork:skill- │
│ Edit        │  patterns │ Analyzer    │ suggest   │ evolution   │
│ Tracker     │           │ Engine      │           │ command     │
└─────────────┘           └─────────────┘           └─────────────┘
     │                          │                          │
     ▼                          ▼                          ▼
┌─────────────┐           ┌─────────────┐           ┌─────────────┐
│ edit-       │           │ evolution-  │           │ versions/   │
│ patterns.   │           │ registry.   │           │ snapshots   │
│ jsonl       │           │ json        │           │             │
└─────────────┘           └─────────────┘           └─────────────┘

Load details: Read("${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/rules/pattern-detection-heuristics.md") for tracked edit patterns and detection regexes. Load details: Read("${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/rules/confidence-scoring.md") for suggestion thresholds.

Subcommands

Each subcommand is documented with implementation details, shell commands, and sample output. Load details: Read("${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/evolution-commands.md")

Report (Default)

/ork:skill-evolution — Shows evolution report for all tracked skills with usage counts, success rates, and pending suggestions.

Analyze

/ork:skill-evolution analyze <skill-id> — Deep-dives into edit patterns for a specific skill, showing frequency, sample counts, and confidence scores.

Evolve

/ork:skill-evolution evolve <skill-id> — Interactive review of improvement suggestions. Uses AskUserQuestion for each suggestion (Apply / Skip / Reject). Creates version snapshot before applying.

History

/ork:skill-evolution history <skill-id> — Shows version history with performance metrics per version.

Rollback

/ork:skill-evolution rollback <skill-id> <version> — Restores a previous version after confirmation. Current version is backed up automatically.

Data Files

File	Purpose	Format
`.claude/feedback/edit-patterns.jsonl`	Raw edit pattern events	JSONL (append-only)
`.claude/feedback/evolution-registry.json`	Aggregated suggestions	JSON
`.claude/feedback/metrics.json`	Skill usage metrics	JSON
`skills/<cat>/<name>/versions/`	Version snapshots	Directory
`skills/<cat>/<name>/versions/manifest.json`	Version metadata	JSON

Auto-Evolution Safety

Load details: Read("${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/rules/auto-evolution-triggers.md") for full safety mechanisms, health monitoring, and trigger criteria.

Key safeguards: version snapshots before changes, auto-alert on >20% success rate drop, human review required, rejected suggestions never re-suggested.

References

Load on demand with Read("${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/<file>"):

File	Content
`evolution-commands.md`	Subcommand implementation, shell commands, and sample output
`evolution-analysis.md`	Evolution analysis methodology
`version-management.md`	Version management guide

Rules

Load on demand with Read("${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/rules/<file>"):

File	Content
`pattern-detection-heuristics.md`	Edit pattern categories and regex detection
`confidence-scoring.md`	Suggestion thresholds and confidence criteria
`auto-evolution-triggers.md`	Safety mechanisms and trigger criteria

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