skill-reflection

A review workflow focused on how coding-agent skills were used during a conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for summarizing the task, listing used or missed skills, and proposing skill updates or new commands.
Why use it?
It turns completed work into concrete suggestions for improving existing skills or creating repeatable workflows.

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/crypticswarm/swarmforge/skill-reflection
Any agent
npx skills add CrypticSwarm/Swarmforge --skill skill-reflection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CrypticSwarm/Swarmforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 783 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 $0.00783
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00078

Measured yesterday against content hash aab3dbaaa1f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-reflection 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 yesterday.

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/skill-reflection/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Reflection

Use this skill to produce a high-signal retrospective on the current conversation focused on skills: what was used, what was missing, and what would make future runs faster and safer.

Output Contract

Return a short, structured reflection. Prefer bullets over prose.

Include these sections when applicable:

  1. Conversation recap (1–3 bullets): what the user wanted and what happened.
  2. Skills used: list explicitly activated skills and any implicitly-triggered ones (name + evidence).
  3. Skill improvements: actionable recommendations to update existing skills.
  4. New skills to consider: candidates for repeatable workflows discovered in this conversation.
  5. Commands to consider (optional): whether a slash command would reduce friction.

How to Identify Skills Used

  • Explicit usage: look for direct skill activation (for example, skill: <name> tool calls) and commands that instruct activation.
  • Implicit usage: infer from the agent’s behavior and/or command prompts (for example, a commit message workflow likely used commit-messages).
  • If uncertain, say so explicitly (for example, “Likely used general-software-engineering (pattern match), but not explicitly activated”).

How to Recommend Skill Improvements (Keep It General)

Your goal is to improve the skill package, not to solve the one-off task.

When suggesting a change, include:

  • Problem pattern: what repeated friction or failure mode appeared.
  • Proposed change: what to add/remove/clarify in the skill (description triggers, workflow steps, safety constraints, validation commands, templates).
  • Why it helps: how it reduces ambiguity, prevents mistakes, or saves iterations.

Guardrails:

  • Avoid recommendations that are overly specific to a single repo, file path, or one-off request.
  • It’s fine to cite the conversation as an example, but phrase the change as a general technique.
  • Prefer small edits that preserve the skill’s intent and minimize token bloat.
  • If the gap is better solved by a command (argument validation + small context blocks), say so.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. yesterday First seen · 79 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A aab3dbaaa1f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-reflection is a skill published in the GitHub repository CrypticSwarm/Swarmforge (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 783 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 2026-08-31.

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