# skillopt-sleep

Runs offline self-evolution cycles for Claude Code: mines past sessions, replays tasks, and stages validated CLAUDE.md and SKILL.md updates for manual review.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 28733
- Author: Alireza Rezvani
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/engineering/skillopt-sleep
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/skillopt-sleep

## What it does

The plugin runs offline sleep cycles using a vendored version of Microsoft's `skillopt_sleep` engine. It harvests past Claude Code sessions in read-only mode, extracts repeating tasks, and replays them to discover better agent instructions. Changes never overwrite live files directly; proposals are written to staging files such as `proposed_CLAUDE.md` and `proposed_SKILL.md` alongside diagnostic reports.

The default backend uses a mock runner, avoiding API spend during initial setups. When switching to Claude or Codex backends, spending is throttled by `max_tokens_per_night`. This distribution includes targeted security patches over upstream code, preventing crontab injection via `shlex.quote` and scrubbing secrets from staged files, `state.json`, and markdown reports.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install skillopt-sleep@claude-code-skills
```

## When to use it
- mine recurring tasks from Claude Code session history
- stage validated updates for CLAUDE.md and SKILL.md
- test agent instruction improvements offline
- redact sensitive credentials from generated prompt archives and reports

## Example prompts
- /skillopt-sleep
- /skillopt-sleep adopt
- Review the staged changes in report.md generated by skillopt-sleep

## Source text · skillopt-sleep · MIT

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```text
# SkillOpt-Sleep (vendored plugin)

This folder started as a **verbatim copy** of the `skillopt_sleep` engine and
the Claude Code plugin surface from
[microsoft/SkillOpt](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt)
(`skillopt_sleep/`, `plugins/claude-code/`, `plugins/run-sleep.sh`), only
relocated so path resolution (`CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT`-relative lookups in
`scripts/sleep.sh` / `scripts/run-sleep.sh`) resolves correctly at this
folder's location. Licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE) © Microsoft
Corporation. A small number of targeted patches were made afterward to close
gaps between this plugin's own safety claims and what the code actually did
— see **Deviations from upstream** below. Re-apply all of these on re-vendor;
they are not upstream yet.

## Deviations from upstream

1. **Cosmetic — `check_paths.py` wording.** `skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md`'s
   frontmatter `description` said "...consolidate validated CLAUDE.md/SKILL.md
   behind a held-out gate" — the `CLAUDE.md/SKILL.md` substring reads as a
   broken relative path to this repo's `[A-Za-z0-9_\-./]+/SKILL\.md` linter
   regex. Reworded to "CLAUDE.md and SKILL.md"; no behavior or meaning
   changed.
2. **Safety — secrets weren't redacted in the files that actually go live.**
   `staging.py`'s `redact_secrets()` was applied to `diagnostics.json` and CLI
   error logging, but **not** to `proposed_SKILL.md` / `proposed_CLAUDE.md` —
   the exact files `adopt()` copies over your live `CLAUDE.md` / managed
   `SKILL.md` (with `--auto-adopt`, with no human in the loop). Since
   `reflect()`'s prompt is built from real harvested session text, a secret
   pasted into a real debugging session could have landed in your live memory
   file unredacted, despite the "secrets are redacted from prompts" claim
   below. Fixed: `write_staging()` now runs both through `redact_secrets()`
   before writing.
3. **Safety — the crontab line was built via unescaped f-string
   interpolation.** `scheduler.py`'s `_runner_cmd()` wrapped `project` (an
   arbitrary filesystem path) in manual `"..."` quoting, then wrote the result
   straight into your real crontab — which cron runs through `sh -c` on every
   fire. A path containing `"`, `` ` ``, `$( )`, or `;` could break out of the
   quoting and inject an arbitrary command into your crontab. Fixed: `project`,
   `logdir`, `log`, and the repo root are now `shlex.quote()`-d before
   interpolation.
4. **Safety — `max_tokens_per_night` was a dead config key.** `config.py`
   declared it in `DEFAULTS`, and `budget.py` already had a `Budget` /
   `plan_depth` heuristic built for exactly this purpose, but nothing in the
   production `run_sleep_cycle()` path ever read it — a `--backend
   claude`/`--backend codex` night had no real ceiling on API spend. Fixed:
   `cycle.py` now starts a `Budget` right after backend construction (so
   harvest/mine spend counts too), sizes `dream_rollouts` down via
   `plan_depth()` when the remaining budget is tight, and appends a `report`
   note whenever it caps rollouts or the budget is exhausted at night's end —
   no silent truncation. This caps *rollout depth per task*, not a hard
   mid-call abort inside a single `dream_consolidate()` call; a night can
   still overshoot the cap somewhat if an individual rollout is unusually
   token-heavy. That residual gap is real and not yet closed.
5. **Cosmetic — dead hardcoded path.** `backend.py`'s `resolve_codex_path()`
   listed `~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.22.3/bin/codex` as a candidate ahead of
   the generic "any nvm node version" scan a few lines later, which already
   covers it. Removed; no behavior change for anyone not on that exact nvm
   version, one less leftover-looking line for everyone else.
6. **Safety — `redact_secrets` was a dead config key.** `config.py` declared
   `"redact_secrets": True` in `DEFAULTS`, but `write_staging()` called
   `redact_secrets()` unconditionally — the safe direction, but the knob had
   no effect either way. Fixed: `cycle.py` now reads
```
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