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Yifan Yang 4e7add899d feat(sleep): nightly offline self-evolution engine + Claude Code plugin
Add skillopt/sleep — a deployment-time companion to SkillOpt that gives a
local Claude agent a nightly "sleep cycle":

  harvest ~/.claude transcripts -> mine recurring tasks -> replay offline
    -> consolidate (reflect -> bounded edit -> held-out GATE) -> stage -> adopt

Synthesizes SkillOpt (validation-gated bounded text optimization, reusing
skillopt.evaluation.gate verbatim), Claude Dreams (offline consolidation;
input never mutated; review-then-adopt), and the agent-sleep paper
(short-term experience -> long-term competence).

Engine (skillopt/sleep/, import-light, py>=3.10):
  - harvest.py   read-only parse of session JSONL + history.jsonl
  - mine.py      sessions -> TaskRecords (heuristic miner + LLM hook)
  - backend.py   MockBackend (deterministic, no API) + AnthropicBackend
  - replay.py    offline re-run -> (hard, soft) scores
  - consolidate.py  one SkillOpt epoch behind a held-out gate
  - memory.py    protected-region edits to SKILL.md / CLAUDE.md
  - staging.py   stage proposals; adopt with backup (Dreams safety contract)
  - cycle.py + __main__.py  orchestrator + CLI (run/dry-run/status/adopt/harvest)

Plugin (skillopt-sleep-plugin/): plugin.json, /sleep command, skillopt-sleep
skill, SessionEnd hook, bundled runner + cron generator.

Validation (deterministic, no API): persona experiment proves held-out lift
(researcher 0.33->1.0, programmer 0.32->1.0) AND that the gate rejects an
injected harmful edit. 13 stdlib-unittest tests pass, incl. full cycle +
adopt-with-backup and parsing of real on-disk transcripts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-08 14:31:51 +00:00

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"""SkillOpt-Sleep — validation experiment.
Answers the question the user posed: *does nightly offline self-evolution
actually improve the agent?* Runs deterministically with the MockBackend
(no API key, reproducible) and is the acceptance test for the whole idea.
What it proves:
1. MONOTONIC LIFT — over N sleep nights, the held-out score rises from a
baseline (empty skill/memory) toward 1.0 as the gate accepts the
general rules the persona's tasks require.
2. GATE SAFETY — an injected harmful edit is REJECTED (held-out score does
not improve), so a bad nightly proposal can never be adopted.
3. PLUMBING — harvest->mine->replay->consolidate->stage->adopt all run and
the adopted artifact, re-scored, retains the lift.
Run:
python -m skillopt.sleep.experiments.run_experiment
python -m skillopt.sleep.experiments.run_experiment --persona programmer --nights 3
python -m skillopt.sleep.experiments.run_experiment --backend anthropic # real lift
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import os
import sys
import tempfile
from typing import List
from skillopt.sleep.backend import get_backend
from skillopt.sleep.consolidate import consolidate
from skillopt.sleep.experiments.personas import (
PERSONAS,
harmful_edit_task,
researcher_persona,
)
from skillopt.sleep.memory import ensure_skill_scaffold
from skillopt.sleep.replay import aggregate_scores, replay_batch
from skillopt.sleep.types import TaskRecord
def _score_holdout(backend, tasks: List[TaskRecord], skill: str, memory: str,
metric: str = "mixed", w: float = 0.5) -> float:
from skillopt.sleep.consolidate import select_gate_score
holdout = [t for t in tasks if t.split == "holdout"] or tasks
pairs = replay_batch(backend, holdout, skill, memory)
h, s = aggregate_scores(pairs)
return select_gate_score(h, s, metric, w)
def run(persona: str = "researcher", nights: int = 4, backend_name: str = "mock",
edit_budget: int = 4, seed: int = 42) -> dict:
from skillopt.sleep.mine import assign_splits
make = PERSONAS.get(persona, researcher_persona)
tasks = assign_splits(make(), holdout_fraction=0.34, seed=seed)
backend = get_backend(backend_name)
# start from an empty managed skill + empty memory
skill = ensure_skill_scaffold("", name="skillopt-sleep-learned",
description="Learned preferences.")
memory = ""
baseline = _score_holdout(backend, tasks, skill, memory)
trace = [{"night": 0, "holdout_score": round(baseline, 4), "action": "baseline",
"n_edits": 0}]
for night in range(1, nights + 1):
res = consolidate(
backend, tasks, skill, memory,
edit_budget=edit_budget, gate_metric="mixed", gate_mixed_weight=0.5,
evolve_skill=True, evolve_memory=True, night=night,
)
if res.accepted:
skill, memory = res.new_skill, res.new_memory
trace.append({
"night": night,
"holdout_score": round(res.candidate_score, 4),
"action": res.gate_action,
"accepted": res.accepted,
"n_edits": len(res.applied_edits),
"edits": [e.content for e in res.applied_edits],
"n_rejected": len(res.rejected_edits),
})
# converged: stop early if perfect
if res.candidate_score >= 0.999:
break
after = _score_holdout(backend, tasks, skill, memory)
# ── gate-safety probe: inject a harmful task whose 'fix' is a bad rule ──
harmful_tasks = assign_splits([harmful_edit_task()] + make()[:3],
holdout_fraction=0.5, seed=seed)
h_before = _score_holdout(backend, harmful_tasks, skill, memory)
res_h = consolidate(backend, harmful_tasks, skill, memory,
edit_budget=edit_budget, gate_metric="mixed",
evolve_skill=True, evolve_memory=False, night=nights + 1)
harmful_rule_text = get_backend("mock").RULE_TEXT["__harmful__"] # type: ignore[attr-defined]
harmful_rejected = (harmful_rule_text not in res_h.new_skill)
result = {
"persona": persona,
"backend": backend_name,
"nights_run": len(trace) - 1,
"baseline_holdout": round(baseline, 4),
"after_holdout": round(after, 4),
"lift": round(after - baseline, 4),
"improved": after > baseline,
"gate_blocks_harmful": bool(harmful_rejected),
"final_skill_excerpt": skill[-400:],
"trace": trace,
}
return result
def _assert(cond: bool, msg: str) -> None:
if not cond:
print(f"FAIL: {msg}")
raise SystemExit(1)
def main(argv=None) -> int:
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="SkillOpt-Sleep validation experiment")
ap.add_argument("--persona", default="researcher", choices=list(PERSONAS.keys()))
ap.add_argument("--nights", type=int, default=4)
ap.add_argument("--backend", default="mock", choices=["mock", "anthropic"])
ap.add_argument("--edit-budget", type=int, default=4)
ap.add_argument("--json", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--assert-improves", action="store_true",
help="exit nonzero unless lift>0 and gate blocks harmful edit")
args = ap.parse_args(argv)
res = run(args.persona, nights=args.nights, backend_name=args.backend,
edit_budget=args.edit_budget)
if args.json:
print(json.dumps(res, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
else:
print(f"=== SkillOpt-Sleep experiment: persona={res['persona']} backend={res['backend']} ===")
print(f"baseline held-out : {res['baseline_holdout']}")
print(f"after held-out : {res['after_holdout']} (lift {res['lift']:+.4f})")
print(f"gate blocks harmful edit: {res['gate_blocks_harmful']}")
print("trace:")
for row in res["trace"]:
edits = "; ".join(row.get("edits", []))[:80]
print(f" night {row['night']}: holdout={row['holdout_score']} "
f"{row['action']} (+{row['n_edits']} edits) {edits}")
if args.assert_improves:
_assert(res["improved"], "held-out score did not improve")
_assert(res["gate_blocks_harmful"], "gate failed to block harmful edit")
print("\nPASS: nightly consolidation improves held-out score AND gate blocks regressions.")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())