Improve Skill Quality

by dotnet

Improve Skill Quality is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by dotnet in skills.

5.2K stars384 forkson dotnet/skillsAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/15

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Install Improve Skill Quality

Copy Improve Skill Quality 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/dotnet/skills/tree/main/.agents/skills/improve-skill-quality ~/.claude/skills/improve-skill-quality

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/dotnet/skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/improve-skill-quality/SKILL.md in dotnet/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/improve-skill-quality
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Improve Skill Quality does

Improve Skill Quality diagnoses failing or unconvincing skill evaluations and turns them into targeted fixes. Use it when an evaluation verdict is a regression, underpowered, or returns no credible improvement, or when deciding whether to strengthen or retire a weak skill.

Improve Skill Quality is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Improve Skill Quality comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Improve Skill Quality

Turn a failing or unconvincing evaluation into a targeted fix. The single most common mistake in this repo is rewriting skill prose in response to a verdict whose real cause was the eval, the fixtures, or the harness. Classify first, then fix.

When to Use

An evaluation verdict is a regression, underpowered, or "no credible improvement".
A skill wins in the isolated arm but not in the plugin arm, or is reported "not activated".
/evaluate reports "Evaluation ran but produced no results".
A skill scores well but costs too much (tokens, turns, wall time, plugin menu budget).
Deciding whether to strengthen or retire a persistently weak skill.

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

Commands Improve Skill Quality provides

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

/evaluate

Frequently asked about Improve Skill Quality

What else does dotnet publish alongside Improve Skill Quality?
Improve Skill Quality is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from dotnet/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include .NET P/Invoke, ASP.NET Core Web API and Agentic Workflows. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Improve Skill Quality does, and is maintained by dotnet in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the dotnet/skills page.
How does Improve Skill Quality compare to other Quality skills?
Improve Skill Quality ranks #288 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Improve Skill Quality against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.