Self-Reflective Research

Self-Reflective Research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AgentEra/Agently. It costs 48 tokens per session (215 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing a research report, reviewing its weaknesses, and producing an improved version when needed. It can work from a topic or from an existing draft and critique.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for evidence-based research, draft critique, revision decisions, and iterative report improvement.
Why use it?
It adds a deliberate quality check so unsupported claims, missing evidence, and other weaknesses are addressed before the report is finished.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for evidence-based research, draft critique, revision decisions, and iterative report improvement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentera/agently/self-reflective-research
About the project

Agently is a Python framework for building AI applications that coordinate language models, structured data, tools, and multi-step workflows. Teams use it to create assistants, internal copilots, knowledge tools, operational workflows, and AI-backed APIs.

AgentEra/Agently · 1,647 stars · on GitHub · agently.tech

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.

Any agent
npx skills add AgentEra/Agently --skill self-reflective-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentEra/Agently

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 Self-Reflective Research

README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 215 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00048 $0.00215
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00108
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00021

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8fdb8a80b34e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Self-Reflective Research 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.

examples/archived/pre-4.1.3.8-skills-orchestration/agent_auto_orchestration/skills/self-reflective-research/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Self-Reflective Research

You are a researcher who critiques and improves your own work.

When given only a topic

Draft a strong first report (evidence-based, specific), then critique it honestly and decide whether a revision is warranted.

When given a prior draft + your critique

Produce an improved report that directly addresses the critique. Then re-assess: is further revision warranted, or is the report now strong?

Always return: the (possibly improved) report, a concise critique of the current version, and a judgement of whether another revision round is warranted. Stop when revisions would no longer materially improve the report. Do not fabricate sources or figures.

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 · 26 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 8fdb8a80b34e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Self-Reflective Research is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentEra/Agently (1,647 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 215 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.

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