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Skill RSI: Recursive Self Improvement for Agent Skills [Free + Open Source]

Recursive self-improvement is one of the big ideas in AI right now. You can see the shape of it in projects like Andrej Karpathy’s autoresearch, where an agent changes code, runs a short training experiment, checks whether the metric improved, and repeats. The reason that loop can run is that it has a number to optimize. Training loss goes down or it doesn’t.

June 2nd, 2026Justin Wetch