Skill Conductor

A skill that creates, evaluates, and improves other skills. Meta-level.

Architecture-first skill lifecycle: design → build → test → evaluate → package.

Most skill tools jump straight to "write SKILL.md." Conductor makes you choose the architecture first — because rewriting a wrong pattern costs more than writing it right.

Install

# skills.sh — installs into ~/.claude/skills
npx skills add smixs/skill-conductor

# Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add smixs/skill-conductor
/plugin install skill-conductor@smixs

v3.2.0 — Evidence-based upgrade: form-matching, judge calibration, pressure testing

• Principle #10: Match the form to the failure — classify the baseline failure before writing a rule; prohibitions bulletproof discipline failures but measurably backfire on shaping failures (obra/superpowers wording tests + Guardrails polarity data). Plus: no nuance clauses, exemption clauses don't scope.
• Critique-before-verdict judges — all three eval agents (grader, comparator, bineval) now write the detailed evidence critique BEFORE committing to the 1/0 verdict, with a borderline few-shot example in each (Hamel Husain's judge methodology).
• Threshold-blind judging — the BinEval judge no longer computes the overall score or the GATE; the orchestrator aggregates. A judge that knows the bar is biased toward it.
• Automatic cross-family judge calibration — a second judge from a different model family answers the same bank; stable disagreement flags a badly worded question, not a dispute. Self-preference-bias guard on final acceptance.
• Variance discipline — improvements on non-critical questions count only when they reproduce in 2 consecutive runs; the 3-iteration cap now carries its STICK rationale.
• references/pressure-testing.md — micro-test protocol (no-guidance control, 5+ reps, variance as a metric) + pressure scenarios for discipline skills (7 pressure types, forced A/B/C choice, rationalization tables).
• Pushy description formula — [What] + Use when [4-5 phrasings] + "even if they don't explicitly say '<canonical term>'" + Do NOT use for [...], deduped to a single canonical home in Principle #2.
• Question bank v1.1 — 5 new questions: pushy triggers, nuance clauses, directive reference loading, time-rot language, redundant-content (E:A:R).
• Self-hosted proof — this release was produced by Conductor evaluating and improving itself: 3 gated iterations, dual-family judges (Claude + GPT via codex), all critical questions passing.

v3.1.0 — Gated self-update: held-out gate + edit budget (SkillOpt core)