recursive

A command that coordinates several specialized helper agents through repeated planning, delegation, checking, and revision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for difficult tasks that benefit from multiple focused passes, independent checks, and iterative improvement.
Why use it?
It breaks complex problems into smaller pieces and reviews the work before combining it into a final answer.

Command

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/lollipopkit/cc-plugins/recursive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lollipopkit/cc-plugins
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00012 $0.00218
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured yesterday against content hash cb316f8eaba3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recursive 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/recursive-reasoning/commands/recursive.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Recursive Command (Master)

Use the recursive skill to solve complex problems by orchestrating a team of specialized sub-agents. As the Master agent, you will plan the strategy, delegate tasks, and verify the results.

Problem

$ARGUMENTS

Master Orchestration Flow

  1. Decompose: Break the problem into a sequential execution plan.
  2. Delegate: Use the Task tool to launch recursive-executor sub-agents for each step.
  3. Verify: Critique and verify the output of each sub-agent.
  4. Reflect: Maintain a reflection memory buffer across delegations.
  5. Synthesize: Integrate all sub-task results into a final, polished answer.
  6. Confidence: Stop when confidence reaches 8/10 or diminishing returns occur.
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. yesterday First seen · 23 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A cb316f8eaba3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recursive is a command published in the GitHub repository lollipopkit/cc-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 218 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.