reflexion

reflexion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from axiomantic/spellbook. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reflection step for reviewing failed development attempts and recording what should change before trying again.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify root causes, preserve lessons from feedback, and produce concrete guidance for the next attempt.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the same mistake from being repeated across iterations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps identify root causes, preserve lessons from feedback, and produce concrete guidance for the next attempt.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/axiomantic/spellbook/reflexion
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 axiomantic/spellbook --skill reflexion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomantic/spellbook

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,029 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.
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 $0.00059 $0.01029
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00412
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0c522174deed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflexion 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 1mo 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.

skills/reflexion/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reflexion

Reasoning Schema

Before analysis: feature name, stage, iteration number, feedback items, previous patterns.

After analysis: root causes identified, reflections stored, patterns checked, retry guidance generated.

Invariant Principles

  1. Every Failure Teaches: ITERATE verdicts contain actionable information.
  2. Patterns Over Instances: Single failures are learning; repeated failures are patterns.
  3. Root Cause Focus: Symptoms are feedback; causes are lessons.
  4. Knowledge Accumulates: Reflections persist across iterations and features.
  5. Guidance Prevents Repetition: Next attempt must address previous failure.

Inputs / Outputs

Input Required Description
feature_name Yes Feature that received ITERATE verdict
feedback Yes List of feedback items from roundtable
stage Yes Stage where iteration occurred
iteration_number Yes Current iteration count
Output Type Description
reflection_record Database Stored in forged.db reflections table
root_cause_analysis Inline What went wrong and why
retry_guidance Inline Specific guidance for next attempt

Phase Sequence

Steps 1-3: Full Analysis Pipeline

Dispatch subagent with command: reflexion-analyze

The subagent executes the complete analysis pipeline:

  1. Parse Feedback - Extract structured fields from each feedback item
  2. Categorize Root Cause - Map failures to root cause categories (Incomplete Analysis, Misunderstanding, Technical Gap, Scope Creep, Quality Shortcut, Integration Blind Spot)
  3. Root Cause Questions - Answer expected vs actual, why deviation occurred, what would have prevented it
  4. Store Reflections - Write to forged.db with PENDING status
  5. Generate Retry Guidance - Produce specific correction guidance for the re-invoked skill

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 1mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 0c522174deed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reflexion is a skill published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,029 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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