ABES

Autonomous Bounty Evolution System. Skills detect their own failures and create structured improvement requests.

The 9 Bounty Principles

Always Create—Every resolvable issue gets a bounty. No silent failures.

Right Audience—Route to AI evolver, human, or hybrid based on complexity.

Complete Context—Include all information needed to understand and fix the issue.

Clear Taxonomy—Consistent pattern types enable automated routing and analysis.

Reward Quality—Bounty value reflects difficulty and impact.

Track Resolution—Monitor time-to-fix and resolution quality.

Learn Patterns—Similar issues should have similar solutions.

Prevent Dupes—Deduplicate similar bounties to reduce noise.

Close the Loop—Verify fix, update trust scores, archive bounty.

Bounty Lifecycle

CREATED

ASSIGNED

IN_PROGRESS

RESOLVED

Bounty Creation Pathways

Error Detection

Automatic bounty when a skill encounters an error during execution.

Gate Denial

When a gate blocks an operation, a bounty captures the context for review.

User Feedback

User indicates output was incorrect or could be improved.

Sampling

Periodic random sampling of outputs for quality review.

Pattern Types

Bounties are classified by pattern type for routing and analysis:

Pattern	Description	Typical Handler
validation_error	Input/output validation failed	AI Evolver
configuration	Config values incorrect	AI Evolver
incomplete_execution	Skill didn't complete all steps	Hybrid
security_issue	Potential security concern	Human
quality_concern	Output quality below standard	Hybrid

Evolver Agents

Each skill can have a companion evolver agent that specializes in resolving bounties for that skill:

~/.claude/skills/evolvers/
├── commit-evolver/
├── bootstrap-evolver/
├── remember-evolver/
└── arch-validator-evolver/

Evolvers understand the parent skill's structure and can make targeted fixes based on bounty context.

Configuration

"abes_config": {
  "enabled": true,
  "auto_create_bounties": true,
  "pattern_types": [
    "validation_error",
    "configuration",
    "incomplete_execution"
  ],
  "blocking_mode": "async",
  "evolver": {
    "enabled": true,
    "agent_id": "commit-evolver"
  }
}