skill-up

Name: skill-up Review
Item: skill-up
Rating: 4.0
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Development Solid

Works inClaude Code

Solid Scanned — metadata only

Enables systematic assessment and improvement of AI agent capabilities, reducing deployment risk and ensuring skill quality before production use.

An evaluation and evolution tool for Agent Skills.

Evaluate how well your AI agent handles specific coding tasks and identify improvement gaps.
Generate test cases to systematically assess agent skill performance across different scenarios.
Track agent skill improvements over time as you refine prompts and training data.

1,390 starsApache-2.0 (commercial OK)FreeQuick setup

Why it matters

Enables systematic assessment and improvement of AI agent capabilities, reducing deployment risk and ensuring skill quality before production use.

Best for

Engineering teams building or integrating autonomous agents who need measurable skill validation and iterative refinement.

Works in

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Source

https://github.com/alibaba/skill-up

By alibaba

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Command

claude plugins install alibaba/skill-up

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

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First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me evaluate how well my AI agent handles specific coding tasks and identify improvement gaps

CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars1,390Contributors17Last updated2026-10-29LicenseApache-2.0 (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-10-29 · scanner v1

Community Pulse Growing

Discussed on Hacker News

Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up? — Hacker News · 589 pts
Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev? — Hacker News · 69 pts
Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency — Hacker News · 8 pts

3 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

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catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 1,229 GitHub stars; 15 contributors; last commit 6d ago; license Apache-2.0.

Things to check

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

4/5

Versatility

4/5

Reliability

4/5

Security

4/5

Overall score4.00 / 5.00 SolidEvaluatedOct 2026

catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 1,229 GitHub stars; 15 contributors; last commit 6d ago; license Apache-2.0.

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