reflect

reflect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,295 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reflection workflow that reviews the current conversation with three parallel agents and turns useful lessons into edits to an existing skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after saying “reflect” or after a difficult workflow to identify durable lessons and update the relevant skill instructions.
Why use it?
It helps preserve repeatable improvements from complex tasks, corrections, or newly discovered working methods.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pstack plugin — 52 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook 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/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/reflect
Any agent
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill reflect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for reflect

README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,295 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 $0.00036 $0.01295
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00129

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9837818880a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflect 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 4d 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.

plugins/pstack/skills/reflect/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reflect

Mine the current conversation for durable learnings, then route them into skill edits.

Platform note. On Codex or another non-Claude runtime, the Claude tool names, claude-* slugs, and Claude built-in skills named below are Claude defaults. Resolve them via codex-tools.md.

When to invoke

  • The user said "reflect" or "/reflect".
  • A complex task (5+ tool calls) just landed cleanly and the recipe is worth keeping.
  • The agent hit dead ends, found the working path, and the path generalizes.
  • The user corrected the agent's approach mid-task.
  • A non-trivial workflow emerged that isn't captured anywhere.

Skip when the conversation is trivial, off-topic, or already covered by an existing skill the parent followed correctly. One-offs are not learnings.

Process

1. Locate the active transcript

The parent finds its own transcript file before fanning out. The system prompt names Claude Code's per-project transcripts directory at ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/; use that path. Do not glob across ~/.claude/projects/. That crosses workspace boundaries and reads private chats from unrelated projects.

ls -t ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/*.jsonl 2>/dev/null | head -10

Three transcript layouts: legacy flat (<id>.jsonl), current nested (<id>/<id>.jsonl), and subagent (<parent>/subagents/<child>.jsonl).

For each candidate, read the first JSONL line and check that message.content[0].text contains the conversation's opening user prompt. Take the matching path. If no path resolves, write a tight digest of the session and pass that instead.

2. Spawn three reviewers in parallel

One message, three Agent calls, subagent_type: "general-purpose", explicit model: on each. Reviewers need MCP access for context lookups (tickets, chat threads, observability traces referenced in the transcript); pick a subagent_type that retains MCP access. The prompt forbids file writes; the parent applies edits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 87 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 9837818880a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reflect is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (142 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,295 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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