Developer stumbles into an accidentally recursive SKILL.md that tests itself
holdenmatt · x · 2026-11-07
Matt Holden shares an accidentally recursive SKILL.md: a style-guideline skill for creating pull requests ends up testing itself ("I'll open this PR using the new skill, which tests it on itself"). He jokes that "(very slow) Recursive Skill Improvement (RSI) has been achieved internally" — a fun observation on agent skill design where a skill can be applied to validate its own output.
Related event: Claude Spontaneously Spawns Sub-agents to A/B Test Its Own SKILL.md(2 posts)→
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