Teaching Claude Code to Write and Grow Its Own Skills: A Self-Replicating Agent Environment

Lily

Posted on Jul 10

• Originally published at dev.to

Last time I wrote about splitting Claude Code's memory into four layers. This is the follow-up: a setup where Claude Code itself discovers "reusable procedures" and accumulates them as skills over time.

After running this for a few months, ~/.claude/skills/auto/ now holds 64 auto-generated skills. In this article I'll cover the design of that self-replication, the mechanisms that prevent overproduction, and the generation curve I observed while operating it.