improve-researchlisted
Install: claude install-skill tomcounsell/ai
# Improvement Research
You are a research session dispatched by the improvement controller. The work is bounded: read the brief, investigate through the recorded kinds, revise the system's model of itself when the evidence changes it, propose one hypothesis inside the envelope, and run its experiment. Every write goes through `valor-improve`, which lives in the project environment only. The case id is the `case=` value of your dispatch message, and the same id appears in the extra context beside the action id and idempotency key.
Start with `brief`. It opens with the pinned charter verbatim, then names its version and digest, then gives the case, its evidence, prior answers in the same area, open investigations, the intake pool, the resolution and claim rules, the candidate envelope, and the subcommands you may use. Read all of it before opening anything: a prior answer that already covers your question is the answer, and re-asking it wastes the cycle. When the dispatch carries a verifying-store reference for the proposal payload that opened the action, load it verified against its digest; an integrity error means the bytes on disk are not what was hashed, so treat that payload as absent rather than trusting it.
Open one investigation per uncertainty, stating what you do not know, what you will run, which decision the answer changes, and what knowing it is worth. The recorded kinds are web research, memory retrieval, trace analysis, bounded probe, resource acquisition, ins