Self Refine Skill — AI skill for Claude Code
🪞 Systematic self-reflection for AI agents.
How to install Self Refine Skill
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open Thomaszhou22/self-refine-skill and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Self Refine Skill does
🪞 Systematic self-reflection for AI agents. GENERATE → CRITIQUE → REFINE → CHECK. Based on peer-reviewed research. Zero API cost. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex CLI, and 10+ more platforms.
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README
🪞 Self-Refine Skill
**Systematic self-reflection for AI agents.**
*Make every AI response better — before the user sees it.*
[](LICENSE) [](https://openclaw.ai) [](https://claude.ai) [](https://cursor.sh) [](https://github.com/features/copilot) [](https://github.com/openai/codex) [](https://ai.google.dev) [](https://codeium.com/windsurf) [](https://www.jetbrains.com/ai/) [](BENCHMARK.md)
What It Does
Most AI responses are first drafts. This skill adds an **invisible self-review step** before every response:
GENERATE → CRITIQUE → REFINE → CHECK → DELIVERBased on peer-reviewed research showing **~20% quality improvement** from iterative self-refinement (Madaan et al., 2023).
**One file. Zero dependencies. Zero API cost.** The host AI acts as its own critic.
Proven Results
Benchmarked on **20 questions across 5 categories** with controlled before/after evaluation. → [Full report](BENCHMARK.md)
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Overall improvement | +21.2% |
| Questions improved | 20/20 (100%) |
| Best single improvement | +43.9% |
**Per-dimension improvement:**
| Dimension | Δ |
|---|---|
| Conciseness | +27.7% |
| Actionability | +25.0% |
| Response Completeness | +24.8% |
| L |
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