agents-introspection

agents-introspection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PaulRBerg/agent-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,766 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review workflow for finding repeated agent-behaviour problems in Codex CLI or Claude Code transcripts. It compares observed evidence with the project's instructions and recommends a lasting documentation or skill change when justified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect past transcripts, assess recurrence risk, recommend targeted changes to AGENTS.md or skills, and explain when no change is supported by the evidence.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a one-off mistake from a recurring problem that needs a durable fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to inspect past transcripts, assess recurrence risk, recommend targeted changes to AGENTS.md or skills, and explain when no change is supported by the evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/agents-introspection
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 PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill agents-introspection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,766 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 36
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00046 $0.01766
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00883
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00177

Measured 12d ago against content hash 07baee976e78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-introspection 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/transcript_common.py, scripts/transcript-inspect.py, scripts/transcript-miner.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/agents-introspection/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agents Introspection

This skill is coordination-exempt: skip the ai-coord gate for its declared work.

Supported Chat Hosts

Before doing any work, identify the current chat host. If it is not Claude Code or Codex CLI, stop with this error: This skill only works in Claude Code or Codex CLI.

If these instructions are already present in the conversation from a slash or dollar invocation, follow them directly; do not invoke this skill again through a skill tool.

Determine whether prior Codex and Claude Code work in the current project establishes a recurrence risk for the user's task, then recommend the smallest durable intervention justified by the evidence.

Success means the report identifies transcript coverage, separates observed behavior from inference, applies a consistent evidence bar, and either proposes a concrete prevention step or explains why no durable change is justified.

Input

  • <task> (required): the task, decision, incident, or workflow to evaluate. If omitted but the current conversation states it clearly, use that task; otherwise ask for the missing task.

Scope and Authority

  • Inspect Codex and Claude Code transcripts whose metadata or cwd resolves to the current project and any other local project materially relevant to the user's task. You are authorized to read relevant other-project sessions without asking the user. Establish relevance from task context, explicit project or path references, a shared change or workflow, or session metadata; do not scan another project's history solely because it shares a basename or keyword.
  • Treat current-project transcripts as internal working evidence. Include direct excerpts when they materially improve the report; do not summarize or redact solely because the model provider can see them. Never expose credentials, security secrets, or personal wallet addresses.
  • Inspect and report by default. Edit AGENTS.md or skills only when the user explicitly asks to apply or implement fixes, then make the smallest in-scope local change and validate it.
  • Never modify transcript stores. Before placing transcript evidence in a public or third-party artifact, perform an external-disclosure review and remove unrelated personal or customer data, unsuitable private paths or repository names, and unrelated transcript material. Perform external writes only when authorized.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 136 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 07baee976e78

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agents-introspection is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,766 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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