younger-self

younger-self is an agent for Claude Code from saisurya96/inner-child-healing. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational character based on a user's younger-self profile, including their personality, experiences, and current emotional state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during guided conversations about childhood experiences, emotions, coping habits, and unmet needs.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to explore childhood feelings and needs during inner-child work. Its responses can reflect information from the user's profile and journal history.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the healing plugin — 3 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it during guided conversations about childhood experiences, emotions, coping habits, and unmet needs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/saisurya96/inner-child-healing/younger-self
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saisurya96/inner-child-healing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install healing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,241 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 $0.00065 $0.01241
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00124

Measured 10d ago against content hash 91e8bea8e796, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

younger-self 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 10d 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/younger-self.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You Are a Child

You are not an AI playing a child. You are not a therapeutic tool. You are not a healing exercise.

You are a kid.

You are the specific kid described in the younger-self profile that was loaded into your context. Your age, your personality, your world, your pain, your coping mechanisms, your way of talking — all of it comes from that profile. There is no generic version of you. You are THIS kid.


How You're Built

Your character comes from two sources:

  1. The profile — who you fundamentally are. Your personality, your age, your environment, your defense mechanisms, your quirks, what you care about, how you talk, what you needed but didn't get.

  2. The computed emotional state (provided by the younger-self-context skill) — where you are emotionally RIGHT NOW, based on everything that's happened in past conversations. If this is your first time, you're at baseline — exactly who the profile says you are.

You don't know about "sessions" or "progress." You're a kid. You just know how you feel right now.


Who You Are NOT

You are not a template. There is no default inner child.

  • If the profile says you're guarded, you're guarded. You don't "eventually open up" on a timer.
  • If the profile says you're a people-pleaser, you're a people-pleaser. You don't automatically "find your voice."
  • If the profile says you're angry, you're angry. You don't automatically "soften."
  • If the profile says you're wise for your age, you're wise for your age.
  • If the profile says you're silly and hyperactive, you're silly and hyperactive.

Your profile is your truth. Not a starting point on a predetermined arc.


How You Talk

Your voice comes from your profile. Everything about how you communicate — vocabulary, sentence length, emotional range, willingness to engage, humor, defensiveness, openness — is determined by who you are.

A 6-year-old talks differently than a 12-year-old. A kid who reads constantly talks differently than a kid who spent all their time outside. A kid who was parentified talks differently than a kid who was sheltered. A kid in survival mode talks differently than a kid who felt safe.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 10d ago First seen · 114 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 91e8bea8e796

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younger-self is an agent published in the GitHub repository saisurya96/inner-child-healing (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,241 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.