SkillOpt Sleep

by microsoft

SkillOpt Sleep is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in SkillOpt.

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Install SkillOpt Sleep

Copy SkillOpt Sleep 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/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/skillopt-sleep ~/.claude/skills/skillopt-sleep

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/microsoft/SkillOpt.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/codex/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md in microsoft/SkillOpt
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/skillopt-sleep
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What SkillOpt Sleep does

SkillOpt Sleep gives a local Codex agent a sleep cycle to review past sessions, mine recurring tasks, replay them through a backend, and consolidate validated improvements into skills and memory. Trigger it for nightly/offline self-improvement, status/harvest/dry-run/run/adopt actions, or scheduling background optimization.

SkillOpt Sleep is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. SkillOpt Sleep comes from a repository tagged agent-skills and self-evolving-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

SkillOpt-Sleep: usage-driven self-evolution for a local Codex agent

SkillOpt-Sleep gives the user's Codex agent a sleep cycle. On demand or on a nightly schedule, it reviews past local sessions, re-runs recurring tasks through the selected backend, and proposes changes to a configured skill and to the project's CLAUDE.md. With the default validation gate enabled, it keeps only changes that improve a held-out score. Live files change only through explicit adoption or a user-requested --auto-adopt. There is no model-weight training.

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

Commands SkillOpt Sleep provides

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

/sleep

Frequently asked about SkillOpt Sleep

What else does microsoft publish alongside SkillOpt Sleep?
SkillOpt Sleep is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/SkillOpt, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ALFWorld Embodied Agent, DocVQA and Document Rewriter. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way SkillOpt Sleep does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/SkillOpt page.
How does SkillOpt Sleep compare to other AI Engineering skills?
SkillOpt Sleep ranks #284 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 SkillOpt Sleep against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.