reasoning-system

reasoning-system is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from atebites-hub/PJTemplate. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,444 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step reasoning workflow for coding tasks, used after planning and before changing code. It gathers relevant documents, project memory, and code before outlining implementation and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new features, refactoring, architecture decisions, and other changes that need documented reasoning and testing checks.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of missing requirements, making poor design choices, or introducing regressions when work spans several files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/atebites-hub/pjtemplate/reasoning-system
Any agent
npx skills add atebites-hub/PJTemplate --skill reasoning-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atebites-hub/PJTemplate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,444 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 $0.00071 $0.01444
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00722
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00144

Measured 5d ago against content hash 67b2a0e88cd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reasoning-system 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 5d 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/skills/reasoning-system/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reasoning System

Structured reasoning immediately before you write or edit code—parallel in role to the Memory System skill for task memory. This workflow is the reasoning system; invoke the sequentialthinking tool for each thought step (see Step 2). Your agent host may register it under different server names; the tool identifier to call is sequentialthinking.

When to Use

Invoke after planning but before writing/editing code:

  • Implementing new features or modules
  • Refactoring existing code
  • Complex architectural decisions
  • Changes affecting multiple files

Instructions

Step 1: Identify Relevant Documents

Select applicable documents from /docs/agents/ based on task type. See references/document-mapping.md for detailed mapping.

This step produces a candidate set of sources. Thought 2 (Retrieval) turns that into a concrete list: which docs to open, which task memory to recall, and which parts of the codebase to search or read.

Quick reference:

Task Type Primary Documents
New feature Requirements, App Flow, Tech Stack
Refactor Coding Standards, File Structure, Server Structure
Bug fix Testing Guidelines, Server Structure
UI work Client Guidelines, App Flow

Step 2: Invoke the sequentialthinking tool

Call sequentialthinking with the parameters below. Server or package names differ by host; use the registration that exposes this tool identifier in your environment.

Parameter Value
thought Current reasoning with doc references, constraints, alternatives
thoughtNumber Current step (1, 2, 3...)
totalThoughts Estimated steps (typically 5–7; adjust up or down as you go)
nextThoughtNeeded true if more reasoning is needed

Optional parameters on the tool (e.g. revision or branching) may be used when you need to reconsider an earlier thought; they are not required for a linear pass.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 107 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 67b2a0e88cd8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reasoning-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository atebites-hub/PJTemplate (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,444 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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