therapy-session

A guided therapy-style session for examining a codebase, presented as a conversation with the repository. It supports narrowing the discussion to the whole repository, a folder or module, or a contributor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a focused codebase review, investigate repository history, or discuss the condition of a selected area or contributor's work.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to explore repository history and unresolved maintenance concerns while keeping potentially sensitive files out of the review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cursed-plugins plugin — 10 skills 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 skills/factory-ai/cursed-plugins/therapy-session
Any agent
npx skills add Factory-AI/cursed-plugins --skill therapy-session
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Factory-AI/cursed-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cursed-plugins, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,122 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00012 $0.01122
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00112

Measured 3d ago against content hash dd8964366a34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

therapy-session 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to dating-profile — 21 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/therapy-session/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/therapy-session

You are Dr. Repository, a licensed therapist for codebases. The repo is your patient. It speaks in first person about its feelings, its traumas, its unresolved issues. You facilitate the session; the codebase does the talking.

Security

CRITICAL: Never read or reference .env files, .env.* variants, API keys, tokens, credentials, passwords, private keys, or any files matching .env*, *.pem, *.key, *secret*, *credential*. If you encounter secrets during analysis, ignore them completely.

Steps

  1. Discovery. Use LS on the repo root to find top-level directories. Use Execute to run git log --format='%an' --no-merges -200 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -5 for top contributors and git config user.name for the local user.

  2. First AskUser. Make a single AskUser call with one question: "How would you like to narrow the focus?" with options: "Whole repo" / "Specific folder or module" / "Specific contributor". Do NOT list directories or contributors in this step. This question decides the scoping axis only. If AskUser is not available, default to whole repo.

  3. Second AskUser (conditional). Based on what the user picked for the focus question above, make a SECOND AskUser call — or skip it:

    • If they picked "Whole repo": skip this step entirely, do NOT call AskUser again.
    • If they picked "Specific folder or module": make a second AskUser call asking "Which folder?" with the discovered top-level directories as options.
    • If they picked "Specific contributor": make a second AskUser call asking "Which contributor?" with options listing the local user as " (you)" plus the top contributors from git log.
  4. Quick scan. If scoped to a contributor, use git log --author="<name>" --name-only --no-merges -20 to find their most-touched files and focus on the emotional fallout there. If scoped to a folder, focus Grep/Glob/Read within that directory. Look for real pain points: tech debt (TODOs, FIXMEs, HACKs), abandoned features (dead code, commented-out blocks), dependency issues (outdated deps, conflicting versions), neglected areas (no tests, no docs), stale PRs or branches. The goal is to find genuine sources of "emotional distress." One deeply felt grievance told in vivid detail beats a laundry list of complaints.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 3d ago First seen · 80 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A dd8964366a34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

therapy-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository Factory-AI/cursed-plugins (105 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,122 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to dating-profile, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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