Show HN: AutoLearn Skills for self-improving agents

27 pointsposted 2 days ago
by toobulkeh

11 Comments

toobulkeh

2 days ago

I vibe coded this at a hackathon a few weeks ago. The solution isn’t stable yet, but it’s similar to Claude Skills with the benefit of only needing an MCP client.

I open sourced it too.

It has a bit to go—like automatically monitoring reasoning traces and security—but I thought this would be easier to use than trying to maintain your own skills.md collection if the server handled more of it for you.

I’d be curious if anyone thinks I should keep working on it. I’d love someone to collaborate with on it!

diamondfist25

2 days ago

It is a novel idea and one that I am interested in. Would you mind sharing your repo, would love to check it out

toobulkeh

2 days ago

Git repo: https://github.com/tarkaai/autolearn

It’s like 5 hours of work and I’m super early with it!

itsajchan

2 days ago

I hosted this Hack Day up in Seattle at the GitHub office and this project was one of 10 from an event that brought in nearly 60 project submissions! @toobulkeh is an awesome builder and was a pleasure to see this project come to life in a few short hours.

Come check AutoLearn and all the other projects here! https://hackersquad.io/showcase/events/cmf08dkr00004ph0kdzxp...

stpedgwdgfhgdd

2 days ago

I sometimes have to decide between running Claude Code headless with a prompt or let CC generate an application based on the prompt. (coining: Codification Threshold tradeoff)

The tradeoff is that the prompt is non-deterministic, but also more flexible. It can handle unknown situations. The generated code executes much faster and reliable for known situations.

If auto-learn would reduce the non-deterministic nature, i.e. chance of failing, that would speed up software development.

snowfield

2 days ago

This is a very interesting concept. I have a few questions though.

Even if the agent has mcp tools avaible, you can't guarantee that it would necessarily use them right? I imagine that you'd have a lot of new tools that do nearly the same things.

Also how does this scale? If the agent has like 300 tools.

toobulkeh

2 days ago

I don’t know (yet) but some ideas might be: 1. A skill that searches skills 2. MCP that returns only relevant skills based on context 3. Separate concerns through sub agents that each have their own autolearn server

drdeca

2 days ago

How does it determine whether the code it has for the skill, failed? (In order to determine that it needs to improve the code for that skill, I mean)

toobulkeh

2 days ago

Definitely needs some work here. That isn’t done (yet). Great feature request! I think it would be some kind of testing logic or feedback loop. Or both!