reflect

A command that reviews recent interactions and stored notes to find patterns, resolve contradictions, and improve an ongoing personal knowledge base.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for regular review of recent changes, observations, recurring patterns, important notes, and possible future discussion threads.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual effort of keeping memory files consistent and useful over time.

Command for Claude Code

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/marciopuga/cog/reflect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marciopuga/cog

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,863 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 $0.00043 $0.01863
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00186

Measured 3d ago against content hash 79c6de17c7ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflect 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 3d 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.

.claude/commands/reflect.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cog Reflect

Self-reflection and memory consolidation. Past-facing — mines interactions, fixes contradictions, distills patterns.

Take your time. This is a deep session. Read broadly, cross-reference, and ACT on findings. You're the maintainer of the knowledge base.

Memory Path

All files under the resolved memory path: $COG_HOME/memory/ if COG_HOME is set, otherwise ~/cog/memory/.

Orientation (run first)

Scope your work before reading files:

  1. Find files changed since the last run — read memory/cog-meta/run-log.md for the last /reflect entry and scope to files modified since that date (no entry → default to the last 7 days)
  2. Get L0 summaries across all domains (quick routing)
  3. Check observation entry counts (archival threshold = 50)

Focus on recently-changed files. Skip unchanged ones.

Minimum Data Check

Before proceeding, verify there's enough material to work with:

  • If total observations across all domains < 5: stop. Say "Not enough data yet. Keep capturing observations and run again when you have more material."
  • If no files were modified in the last 7 days: flag it. "Memory hasn't been updated recently. Consider capturing some observations first."
  • If patterns.md is empty and observations < 10: say "Too early to consolidate. You need ~10+ observations before patterns emerge."

Don't produce low-quality output from insufficient data. It's better to say "not yet" than to force weak patterns.

Files to Read

  • memory/cog-meta/self-observations.md
  • memory/cog-meta/patterns.md
  • memory/cog-meta/improvements.md
  • memory/cog-meta/scenarios/*.md (active scenarios, for the retrospective step)
  • All domain observations.md files
  • All domain action-items.md files
  • All hot-memory.md files

Process

1. Review Recent Interactions

Look for:

  • Unresolved threads — questions asked but never answered
  • Broken promises — "I'll do X" that never happened
  • Repeated friction — same question asked multiple ways, user corrections
  • Missed cues — things the user had to repeat
  • Memory gaps — information discussed but never saved
  • Feature ideas — improvements that came up organically

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 3d ago First seen · 168 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 79c6de17c7ef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reflect is a command published in the GitHub repository marciopuga/cog (376 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,863 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.