reason

reason is a command for coding agents from satasuk03/kimi-plugin-cc. It costs 23 tokens per session (912 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that sends a difficult reasoning, software-design, or debugging question to a Kimi reasoning subagent. The subagent only investigates and reports; it does not edit files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, complex reasoning, and hard debugging investigations, either in the foreground or as a background job.
Why use it?
It gives you a separate analysis of problems that may need deeper investigation before you make changes.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the kimi plugin — 2 skills, 7 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/satasuk03/kimi-plugin-cc/reason
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/satasuk03/kimi-plugin-cc

Or install kimi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 7 commands, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for reason

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 912 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 $0.00023 $0.00912
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00091

Measured 3d ago against content hash 939d01d5c765, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reason 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.

plugins/kimi/commands/reason.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the kimi:kimi-reasoner subagent via the Agent tool (subagent_type: "kimi:kimi-reasoner"), forwarding the raw user request as the prompt. kimi:kimi-reasoner is a subagent, not a skill — do not call Skill(kimi:kimi-reasoner) (no such skill) or Skill(kimi:reason) (that re-enters this command and hangs the session). The command runs inline so the Agent tool stays in scope; forked general-purpose subagents do not expose it. The final user-visible response must be Kimi's output verbatim.

Raw user request: $ARGUMENTS

Core constraint:

  • This command is read-only. Kimi should investigate, analyze, and report — not edit files.

Execution mode:

  • If the request includes --background, run the kimi:kimi-reasoner subagent in the background.
  • If the request includes --wait, run the kimi:kimi-reasoner subagent in the foreground.
  • If neither flag is present, default to foreground.
  • --background and --wait are execution flags for Claude Code. Do not forward them to reason, and do not treat them as part of the natural-language request text.
  • --model is a runtime-selection flag. Preserve it for the forwarded reason call, but do not treat it as part of the natural-language request text.
  • If the request includes --resume, do not ask whether to continue. The user already chose.
  • If the request includes --fresh, do not ask whether to continue. The user already chose.
  • Otherwise, before starting Kimi, check for a resumable reasoning thread from this Claude session by running:
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-companion.mjs" task-resume-candidate --json
  • If that helper reports available: true, use AskUserQuestion exactly once to ask whether to continue the current Kimi thread or start a new one.
  • The two choices must be:
    • Continue current Kimi thread
    • Start a new Kimi thread
  • If the user is clearly giving a follow-up instruction such as "continue", "keep going", "resume", or "dig deeper", put Continue current Kimi thread (Recommended) first.
  • Otherwise put Start a new Kimi thread (Recommended) first.
  • If the user chooses continue, add --resume before routing to the subagent.
  • If the user chooses a new thread, add --fresh before routing to the subagent.
  • If the helper reports available: false, do not ask. Route normally.

Operating rules:

  • The subagent is a thin forwarder only. It should use one Bash call to invoke node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-companion.mjs" reason ... and return that command's stdout as-is.
  • Return the Kimi companion stdout verbatim to the user.
  • Do not paraphrase, summarize, rewrite, or add commentary before or after it.
  • Do not ask the subagent to inspect files, monitor progress, poll /kimi:status, fetch /kimi:result, call /kimi:cancel, summarize output, or do follow-up work of its own.
  • Leave the model unset unless the user explicitly asks for one. When unset, the companion runs the reasoning job on Kimi K3 (kimi-code/k3); when the user names a model, pass the requested id through with --model <id>.
  • Leave --resume and --fresh in the forwarded request. The subagent handles that routing when it builds the reason command.
  • If the helper reports that Kimi is missing or unauthenticated, stop and tell the user to run /kimi:setup.
  • If the user did not supply a request, ask what Kimi should analyze, investigate, or reason about.
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 · 52 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 939d01d5c765

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reason is a command published in the GitHub repository satasuk03/kimi-plugin-cc (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 912 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.