Iterates toward a goal one measured change at a time, keeping what raises the score and reverting what does not, until a fresh run of the check proves the completion criteria met. Use when the user gives a goal and completion criteria and asks to hillclimb, iterate, or keep going until they pass.
Install
npx skills add bostonaholic/skills --skill hillclimbingnpx skills add bostonaholic/skills --skill hillclimbing -a claude-code -gnpx skills add bostonaholic/skills --skill hillclimbing -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/bostonaholic/skills.git --path skills/engineering/hillclimbinggh skill install bostonaholic/skills hillclimbinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/skills /tmp/bostonaholic__skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/bostonaholic__skills/skills/engineering/hillclimbing ~/.claude/skills/hillclimbing # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/bostonaholic__skills/skills/engineering/hillclimbing ~/.agents/skills/hillclimbing # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode