Discover

by evo-hq

Discover is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by evo-hq in evo.

1.4K stars105 forkson evo-hq/evoAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/17

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Install Discover

Copy Discover into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/evo-hq/evo/tree/main/plugins/evo/skills/discover ~/.claude/skills/discover

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/evo-hq/evo.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/evo/skills/discover/SKILL.md in evo-hq/evo
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/discover
Collection: One of 8 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Discover does

Discover initializes an evo workspace for the current repository by exploring the codebase, proposing optimization dimensions, constructing a benchmark, and running a baseline experiment. Use it when starting a new evo run or instrumenting a project for autonomous optimization.

Discover is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Discover comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, autonomous-agents, autoresearch, claude-code and code-optimization.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Discover

Internal procedure for evo:discover. The user only sees the user-facing prompts, the dashboard URL, and the baseline score -- everything else is the agent's choreography.

Evo surface

General guidance on the skills and tools available in evo. Each line is a triggering condition: if you're about to do X, pull/dispatch/read this. Don't preload -- act when the trigger fires.

Always have a sense of the skill before jumping into its references. A skill body carries the decision-making; references are concrete contracts that assume a decision has been made.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Discover provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/optimize

Frequently asked about Discover

What else does evo-hq publish alongside Discover?
Discover is one of 8 skills that DirSkills catalogs from evo-hq/evo, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Evo Report, Evo Subagent Protocol and Finetuning. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Discover does, and is maintained by evo-hq in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the evo-hq/evo page.
How does Discover compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Discover ranks #1067 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Discover against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.