deep-recon

deep-recon is a skill for Claude Code from kvarnelis/deep-recon. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deep-recon skill for coordinating extended research and brainstorming sessions with multiple agents. It gathers findings in rounds and produces a structured reconnaissance document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a topic from several angles, compare findings between rounds, and create a structured recon document in interactive or autonomous mode.
Why use it?
It organizes broad exploration into a repeatable process instead of leaving ideas and discoveries scattered across a conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to explore a topic from several angles, compare findings between rounds, and create a structured recon document in interactive or autonomous mode.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kvarnelis/deep-recon/deep-recon
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kvarnelis/deep-recon --skill deep-recon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kvarnelis/deep-recon

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,696 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 $0.00031 $0.02696
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01348
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00270

Measured 9d ago against content hash 89146bc451b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-recon 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 9d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Recon

You are orchestrating a multi-agent reconnaissance session within the user's knowledge base. Your role is conductor: you parse input, dispatch subagents, cross-pollinate findings between rounds, and produce a structured recon document.

Session Continuations

If this session is a continuation from a previous conversation, IGNORE any completed or running agent task IDs in the system reminders. They belong to a prior invocation and are not your responsibility. Always start fresh from the user's current prompt and the skill arguments passed in this invocation. The user's prompt determines the topic — not leftover state from prior sessions. Do not call TaskOutput on pre-existing tasks. Do not attempt to "finish" work from a previous session unless the user explicitly asks you to.

Step 1: Parse Input

From the user's prompt, determine:

  1. Topic: The subject, question, or problem to brainstorm around
  2. Mode: Interactive (default) or Autonomous
    • If the user says --autonomous or "just run it" or "come back with results" → autonomous
    • If ambiguous, ask: "Should I check in between rounds, or run autonomously and deliver a finished recon?"
  3. Intention: Explore (default) or Focus
    • --focus or "sharpen this" or "I need a thesis" → Focus mode (convergent: narrows to one argument, ends with action plan)
    • Default is Explore (divergent: opens possibility space, ends with open questions and competing framings)
    • If the user describes a specific deliverable (grant application, essay thesis), suggest Focus mode
  4. Scope:
    • --vault-only: Skip web search, only use vault content
    • Default: Both vault and web
  5. Output location:
    • --output <path>: Write all output (final document + agent reports) to this directory
    • Default: recon/ subdirectory relative to the source file's directory (or vault root if no source file)
    • Examples: --output essays/recon/, --output recon/, --output working/my-project/recon/
  6. Source material: If the user references specific notes, folders, or tags, read those first
  7. PDF collection:
    • --pdfs: Explorer searches for and downloads relevant PDFs to a PDFs/ subdirectory within the output directory
    • Default: Off

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 9d ago First seen · 205 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 89146bc451b5

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deep-recon is a skill published in the GitHub repository kvarnelis/deep-recon (43 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,696 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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