# meta-optimize

Analyzes ARIS execution logs and drafts optimizations for SKILL.md prompts, convergence thresholds, and reviewer instructions.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 455 installs · ★ 18090
- Author: wanshuiyin
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tree/HEAD/skills/meta-optimize/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/meta-optimize

## What it does

The skill acts as an outer optimization loop for the ARIS research harness. It inspects `.aris/meta/events.jsonl`, spots bottlenecks from previous runs, and generates adjustments for workflow order or prompt instructions. It never touches research artifacts like papers or code experiments.

Architecturally, this skill is a read-only producer. It has no access to `Write` or `Edit` tools. All generated reports and staged patches land strictly in the scratch folder `.aris/meta/`. Applying those changes requires a separate human step through `/meta-apply`. This prevents accidental self-edits in the corpus.

Running the skill requires active logging configured via `templates/claude-hooks/meta_logging.json` in your `.claude/settings.json`. It will halt early if the event log contains fewer than 5 recorded skill invocations.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill meta-optimize -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/meta-optimize/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/meta-optimize/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill meta-optimize -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/meta-optimize/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill meta-optimize -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/meta-optimize/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep meta-optimize
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/meta-optimize/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill meta-optimize -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --path skills/meta-optimize
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/meta-optimize/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill meta-optimize -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tree/HEAD/skills/meta-optimize/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- identify bottlenecks in ARIS execution traces
- propose refined prompts for reviewer models
- tune retry limits and convergence rules
- stage SKILL.md patches without touching corpus files directly

## Example prompts
- Analyze ARIS usage logs and suggest improvements for all skills
- Run /meta-optimize to inspect bottlenecks from prior sessions
- Propose prompt updates for reviewer steps based on event logs

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: meta-optimize
description: "Analyze ARIS usage logs and propose optimizations to SKILL.md files, reviewer prompts, and workflow defaults. Outer-loop harness optimization inspired by Meta-Harness (Lee et al., 2026). Use when user says \"优化技能\", \"meta optimize\", \"improve skills\", \"分析使用记录\", or wants to optimize ARIS's own harness components based on accumulated experience."
argument-hint: "[target-skill-or-all]"
allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Grep, Glob, mcp__codex__codex, mcp__codex__codex-reply, mcp__antigravity__antigravity, mcp__antigravity__antigravity-reply, mcp__grok__grok, mcp__grok__grok-reply, mcp__claude-review__review, mcp__claude-review__review_reply, mcp__claude-review__review_start, mcp__claude-review__review_reply_start, mcp__claude-review__review_status
---

# Meta-Optimize: Outer-Loop Harness Optimization for ARIS

> **Before each reviewer slot**, follow [Selectable Reviewers](../shared-references/reviewer-backends.md):
> resolve invocation → `.aris/reviewer.json` → Claude Code default (Codex MCP)
> with `reviewer_route.py` through the canonical helper resolver, preserving this
> slot's tier, fresh contexts, source/image inputs and deterministic gates.
> Codex examples/pins below apply only to `backend=codex`; other routes use their
> own first-call/reply contract. Save the route and actual returned identity;
> unavailable selections are `REVIEW_UNAVAILABLE`. Classify acceptance from actual
> families/completion/scope. Forward invocation reviewer/model/effort overrides
> to reviewer-bearing children. Generation workers are unchanged.


Analyze accumulated usage logs and propose optimizations for: **$ARGUMENTS**

## Privilege boundary — this skill is a READ-ONLY PRODUCER

meta-optimize **proposes**; it does not **land**. The mutation of the skill corpus
is the exclusive job of a separate, human-invoked skill: [`/meta-apply`](../meta-apply/SKILL.md).
This split is structural, not advisory — it is why a missed instruction cannot let
this loop apply its own patch (the self-acquittal failure mode):

- **No `Write`/`Edit` tool.** This skill cannot edit a SKILL.md / shared-reference /
  any corpus file with the frictionless mutators. Its only outputs are the REPORT and
  staged patch files, written under `.aris/meta/` (a scratch area, never the corpus).
- **No apply step.** There is no in-skill "apply the patch" path (see Step 6). The
  producer ends by *staging* approved patches for `/meta-apply`; a human must then
  invoke `/meta-apply` to land them. That human action is the landing gate.
- **`Bash` writes to the corpus are filtered, not impossible — be honest about the
  layers.** What IS fully closed: the *accidental / in-flow* self-acquittal — this skill
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