skill-optimizer
skill-optimizer is an agent skill published by mcollina, listed under review & testing. It lives in the mcollina/skills repository, which has 1,960 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Optimizes AI skills for activation, clarity, and cross-model reliability. Use for creating or editing skill packs, diagnosing weak skill uptake, reducing regressions, tuning instruction salience, improving examples, shrinking context cost, or setting benchmark/release gates for skills.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads mcollina/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add mcollina/skills
Maintenance
Optimizes AI skills for activation, clarity, and cross-model reliability. Use when creating or editing skill packs, diagnosing weak skill uptake, reducing regressions, tuning instruction salience, improving examples, shrinking context cost, or setting benchmark/release gates for skills. Trigger terms: skill optimization, activation gap, benchmark skill, with/without skill delta, regression, context budget, prompt salience.
skill-optimizer compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| skill-optimizer (this page) | mcollina | Optimizes AI skills for activation, clarity, and cross-model reliability. Use when creating or editing skill… | 1,960 | 2026-10-18 |
| fastify-best-practices(same repository) | mcollina | Guides development of Fastify Node.js backend servers and REST APIs using TypeScript or JavaScript. Use when… | 1,960 | 2026-10-18 |
| linting-neostandard-eslint9(same repository) | mcollina | Configures ESLint v9 flat config and neostandard for JavaScript and TypeScript projects, including migrating… | 1,960 | 2026-10-18 |
| code-review | mattpocock | Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does t… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| scaffold-exercises | mattpocock | Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Us… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| tdd | mattpocock | Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-gree… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| webapp-testing | anthropic | Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about skill-optimizer
- What does skill-optimizer do?
- Optimizes AI skills for activation, clarity, and cross-model reliability. Use for creating or editing skill packs, diagnosing weak skill uptake, reducing regressions, tuning instruction salience, improving examples, shrinking context cost, or setting benchmark/release gates for skills.
- How do I install skill-optimizer?
- Run npx skills add mcollina/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes skill-optimizer?
- mcollina.
- Is skill-optimizer maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 1,960 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-18. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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