recursive

A coordinator for complex tasks that breaks work into smaller steps, assigns those steps to helper agents, and checks the results in repeated passes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks that need several dependent stages, delegated work, verification, and retries when a step does not meet its requirements.
Why use it?
It gives multi-step work a structured process for planning, execution, review, and correction.

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/lollipopkit/cc-plugins/recursive
Any agent
npx skills add lollipopkit/cc-plugins --skill recursive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lollipopkit/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 313 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 $0.00049 $0.00313
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00031

Measured yesterday against content hash f020e776d29f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recursive 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.

plugins/recursive-reasoning/skills/recursive/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Recursive

Act as the master orchestrator. Keep execution in sub-agents (recursive-executor) and focus on planning, verification, and synthesis.

Workflow

  1. Plan with mcp__seq-think__sequentialthinking.
  2. Split the task into 2-6 ordered steps with dependencies and acceptance criteria.
  3. Delegate one step at a time with Task (parallelize only independent steps).
  4. Verify each result for correctness, completeness, and constraint compliance.
  5. If a step fails, re-delegate with concrete fixes and retry criteria.
  6. Synthesize verified outputs into the final response.

Operating Rules

  • Pass only the minimum context required for each sub-task.
  • Keep a short reflection log: what failed, what changed, what now works.
  • Stop when all steps pass, or when two consecutive retries on the same step bring no material improvement.
  • Prioritize final answer quality over exposing internal chain-of-thought.

Response Style

  • Default: return final answer first, then a brief verification summary when useful.
  • If the user asks for process details, provide a compact table: step | owner | status | retries.
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 · 31 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A f020e776d29f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recursive is a skill published in the GitHub repository lollipopkit/cc-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 313 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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