Skill Forge
A self-improving environment where LLM agents rewrite their own skill instructions through a generate → evaluate → optimize loop.
Core trick
Agent rewrites its own skill markdown after automated scoring by a judge and vision model, looping generate-evaluate-optimize without weight updates.
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Description
A self-improving environment where LLM agents rewrite their own skill instructions through a generate → evaluate → optimize loop.
Instead of fine-tuning weights, we optimize human-readable skill files, making improvements interpretable, transferable, and composable.
Outputs are automatically scored against gold standards (Patronus Judge MM + Gemini Vision), and the agent updates its own rules with zero human feedback.
MVP: consulting slide generation improved 33 → 94 in one iteration. The same loop generalizes to any document task by swapping skill files and evaluators.
README excerpt
# Skill Forge An RL environment that teaches AI to generate **professional consulting-quality slides** — automatically. It uses a generate-evaluate-optimize loop where an LLM agent iteratively rewrites its own design instructions, reaching **94/100 in just 1 step** with zero human feedback. ## Training Metrics ### Latest Run (OpenEnv + Aligned Evaluator) ``` Step 0 ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 33/100 (baseline — teal palette, no McKinsey elements) Step 1 ███████████████████░ 94/100 (white bg, structured table, insight title) ``` > **94/100** — "A highly professional, McKinsey-style slide with an exceptionally strong action title and clean, structured data presentation." Converges in **1 step** thanks to: - **1M context beta** — full skill documentation passes through (no truncation) - **Aligned evaluator** — explicit "white background" criterion matches reference images - **Gemini JSON mode** — structured output schema eliminates parse errors ### Previous Runs <details> <summary>Click to expand</summary> **Run 2 — Fixed rubric, no JSON mode** (parse errors on steps 3-4): ``` Step 0 █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 27/100 Step 1 ██████████░░░░░░░░░░ 52/100 Step 2 █████████████████░░░ 89/100 Step 3 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0/100 (JSON parse error — actual ~96) Step 4 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0/100 (JSON parse error — actual ~83) ``` **Run 1 — Vague rubric** (dark background scored high due to evaluator blind spot): ``` Step 0 ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 20/100 Step 1 ████████