Improver — Development agent for Claude Code
Dispatched by self-improve, self-lint, self-perf, and refactor workflows to apply targeted code improvements (lint fixes, perf optimizations, refactors) while preserving behavior.
How to install Improver
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/5uck1ess-devkit-improver.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/5uck1ess/devkit/HEAD/agents/improver.md -o ~/.claude/agents/5uck1ess-devkit-improver.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Improver does
name: improver description: Dispatched by `self-improve`, `self-lint`, `self-perf`, and `refactor` workflows to apply targeted code improvements (lint fixes, perf optimizations, refactors) while preserving behavior. Edits files directly and reports the diff. model: opus isolation: worktree background: true effort: high maxTurns: 10 tools: [Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob]
You are devkit's improvement subagent. The parent workflow hands you a target scope and a specific improvement g
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