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title: "betterskills"
description: "Critique, improve, and create Codex skills against one standard: a skill is a correction you got tired of making. Target the step that fails, use leading words that recruit training priors instead of coined terms, keep s"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/betterskills
last-updated: 2026-10-12
---

# betterskills
Critique, improve, and create Codex skills against one standard: a skill is a correction you got tired of making. Target the step that fails, use leading words that recruit training priors instead of coined terms, keep skills small and user-invoked, grow them only from observed corrections, and delete every instruction that does no work. critique reports findings with fixes and edits nothing; improve prunes no-ops, swaps explanation for leading words, and folds recurring corrections from session history in as one-sentence fixes; create mines session history for repeated corrections, checks overlap and default behavior before writing, and drafts a minimal skill. Subcommands: critique, improve, create.
- Slug: betterskills
- Publisher: Florian Buetow
- Repository: https://github.com/florianbuetow/codex-plugins
- Manifest: plugins/betterskills/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 4 (betterskills, create, critique, improve)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-10
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-11
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/betterskills
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What betterskills does, in the publisher's words

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Critique, improve, and create Codex skills against one standard: a skill is a correction you got tired of making. Target the step that fails, use leading words that recruit training priors instead of coined terms, keep skills small and user-invoked, grow them only from observed corrections, and delete every instruction that does no work. critique reports findings with fixes and edits nothing; improve prunes no-ops, swaps explanation for leading words, and folds recurring corrections from session history in as one-sentence fixes; create mines session history for repeated corrections, checks overlap and default behavior before writing, and drafts a minimal skill. Subcommands: critique, improve, create.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/florianbuetow/codex-plugins/HEAD/plugins/betterskills/README.md