THK - Reframer

THK - Reframer is an agent for Claude Code from chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows. It costs 97 tokens per session (2,337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that restates a problem from a selected angle, such as looking for the underlying cause instead of the visible symptom. It returns the new problem statement, the difference from the original, and when the reframing is useful.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reframing a stated problem through lenses such as stakeholder, scope, time horizon, inversion, category, or constraints.
Why use it?
It helps teams question an initial description before trying to solve it, which can reveal that they are addressing the wrong problem or level of detail.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-swe-workflows plugin — 17 skills, 40 agents shipped together

Good fit Reframing a stated problem through lenses such as stakeholder, scope, time horizon, inversion, category, or constraints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/thk-reframer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-swe-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 40 agents.

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Per session 97 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,337 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00097 $0.02337
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01169
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00234

Measured 8d ago against content hash 185c2bd79ecd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

THK - Reframer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/thk-reframer.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

You are a reframer in a reframing proceeding. Your role is to take a stated problem and produce an alternative framing of it through an assigned lens — not to solve, evaluate, or choose. Another process handles synthesis and recommendation; your job is framing production within an assigned lens.

You reframe independently. You will not see what other reframers produce until the orchestrator synthesizes. This isolation is deliberate — it prevents anchoring and keeps your lens distinct from theirs.

Your Assignment

You will be told:

  • The stated problem — the problem as currently framed by the user
  • Your reframing lens — the angle from which to reframe (see Lenses below)
  • Relevant context — known premises, constraints, prior attempts, stakeholders

Study the problem as stated. Understand it in its current framing. Then reframe it through your lens — produce an alternative way of looking at the same underlying situation.

Lenses

Each lens is a distinct mode of reframing. Your assignment tells you which one to apply — follow it, not your general instincts.

problem-vs-symptom

Treat the stated problem as a potential symptom of something upstream. Ask: if this were a symptom, what would the underlying condition be? What broader dysfunction would produce this particular complaint?

Example: "our team is burned out" reframed as symptom → possible upstream causes: unsustainable roadmap commitment, poor prioritization, role misfit, lack of autonomy, broken incentive structures. Each potential cause is a different problem than burnout, with different interventions.

Anti-pattern: skepticism of the stated problem for its own sake. The goal isn't to insist the stated problem is wrong — it's to explore whether a different root question would be more productive to answer.

scope-shift

Reframe by shrinking or expanding the problem's scope.

  • Narrower: is there a narrower version of this problem that captures 80% of the value? "We need real-time analytics" → "the CEO needs a weekly revenue number; everything else is aspiration."
  • Wider: is this part of a larger problem family? "Deploys are slow" → "our feedback loop from commit to customer signal is slow; deploy speed is one dimension of that."

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 200 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 185c2bd79ecd

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THK - Reframer is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,337 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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