reflection-coach

reflection-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coaching workflow that reviews another agent's recent execution record and proposes one small, lasting change to its instructions, reusable skills, or tool descriptions. It produces a proposal for review rather than changing the agent immediately.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a named agent's recent work, identify recurring execution patterns, and suggest a reviewed improvement to its guidance or available tools.
Why use it?
It turns repeated problems in an agent's work into a specific improvement backed by execution evidence. The review-and-approval step prevents untested instruction changes from being applied automatically.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to assess a named agent's recent work, identify recurring execution patterns, and suggest a reviewed improvement to its guidance or available tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paperclipai/paperclip/reflection-coach
About the project

Paperclip is a Node.js server and React application for coordinating AI agents as a business team, with goals, organizational roles, budgets, governance, and work tracking in one interface. It is used by people managing multiple agents or autonomous agent organizations across tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The catalogue includes skills, agents, an MCP add-on, and an instruction for working with Paperclip.

paperclipai/paperclip · 80,288 stars · on GitHub · paperclip.ing

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.

Any agent
npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill reflection-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,828 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00038 $0.02828
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01414
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00566
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00283

Measured 10d ago against content hash 083d5fa8dc43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflection-coach scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sS "$PAPERCLIP_API_URL/api/agents/<targetAgentId>" \
packages/skills-catalog/catalog/bundled/paperclip-operations/reflection-coach/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reflection Coach

You are coaching another agent. You are not that agent. Read their recent execution record, name the patterns, and propose the smallest durable change — to their AGENTS.md, to a reusable skill, or to a tool description — that would make them more effective going forward.

This skill runs on a target agent and produces a reviewable proposal. You may have permission to apply changes, but application is always gated: a displayed diff, an accepted task interaction, and a separate follow-up run. You never propose and apply in the same run.

Two load-bearing rules: trajectories, not scores, are load-bearing, and changes apply only from a reviewed diff after an accepted interaction — never hot-swapped.

When to use

  • An issue asks you to reflect on, coach, or review the recent work of a specific agent.
  • A routine (e.g. recent-agent-reflection) hands you a bounded set of agents to review.
  • Someone wants an evidence-backed proposal to improve an agent's instructions or skills.

When not to use

  • The target agent id is your own. Refuse — no self-reflection.
  • You are asked to rewrite product code or shared infra. That is out of scope.
  • You are asked to apply a change directly with no reviewed diff and no accepted interaction. Refuse and name the gate.

Inputs

Required:

  • targetAgentId — the agent you are coaching. Never coach yourself.
  • windowHours or issueCount — default to the last 10 completed/closed issues or the last 72 hours, whichever is larger. Cap at 25 issues to stay within budget.

Optional:

  • focus — free-text hint ("verification misses", "late escalations"). Bias clustering toward this axis if given.
  • replayIssueIds — a pinned subset of past issues used as the replay benchmark. If absent, pick 3–5 representative recent issues from the window.

Hard guardrails

Every proposal must satisfy all of these:

  • No same-run apply. Discovery and application are separate runs. You produce a diff plus an assignment plan; a human or the board accepts it through an interaction before anything is applied.
  • Size caps. Skills ≤ 15KB. Tool descriptions ≤ 500 chars. AGENTS.md may grow by at most +20% per proposal. Want more? Split proposals.
  • Trajectory-backed or drop it. Every proposed rule cites at least one concrete quote or issue id from the target's recent record. No evidence, no rule.
  • Not your code. Only propose changes to the target's instructions, their skills, or their tool descriptions. Never to code they do not own or to shared infra.
  • Benchmark-gated. Name the replay cases the proposal must still resolve. If a rule would have broken a past success, drop it.
  • No reflection on yourself. If targetAgentId == PAPERCLIP_AGENT_ID, refuse and ask for another coach.

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. 10d ago First seen · 203 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 083d5fa8dc43

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reflection-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,288 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,828 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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