reflect

A reflection workflow for recording useful lessons from a conversation, including mistakes, decisions, preferences, and knowledge about the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when wrapping up work, correcting a mistake, or capturing a recurring workflow pattern for future tasks.
Why use it?
Important details can be forgotten between sessions. It helps decide whether a lesson belongs in persistent notes or should instead become an automated check or rule.

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/poteto/noodle/reflect
Any agent
npx skills add poteto/noodle --skill reflect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poteto/noodle

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 657 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 $0.00040 $0.00657
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash d414a01130c8, 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/reflect/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reflect

Review the conversation and persist learnings — to brain/, to skill files, or as structural enforcement.

Process

Use Tasks to track progress (TaskCreate per step, TaskUpdate to in_progress/completed).

  1. Read brain/index.md to understand what notes already exist
  2. Scan the conversation for:
    • Mistakes made and corrections received
    • User preferences and workflow patterns
    • Codebase knowledge gained (architecture, gotchas, patterns)
    • Tool/library quirks discovered
    • Decisions made and their rationale
    • Friction in skill execution, orchestration, or delegation
    • Repeated manual steps that could be automated or encoded
  3. Skip anything trivial or already captured in existing brain files
  4. Route each learning to the right destination (see Routing below)
  5. Update brain/index.md if any brain files were added or removed

Routing

Not everything belongs in the brain. Route each learning to where it will have the most impact.

Structural enforcement check

Before routing a learning to brain/, ask: can this be a lint rule, script, metadata flag, or runtime check? If yes, encode it structurally and skip the brain note. See brain/principles/encode-lessons-in-structure.md.

Brain files (brain/)

Codebase knowledge, delegation principles, gotchas — anything that informs future sessions. This is the default destination. Use the brain skill for writing conventions.

  • One topic per file. File name = topic slug.
  • Group in directories with index files using [[wikilinks]].
  • No inlined content in index files.

Skill improvements (.agents/skills/<skill>/)

If a learning is about how a specific skill works — its process, prompts, or edge cases — update the skill directly. Use the skill-creator skill for guidelines on effective skill content.

Orchestration workflow improvements

If the session revealed systemic orchestration issues, route to:

  • Brain principle (new delegation heuristic) → brain/delegation/
  • Skill mechanics change (monitoring loop, review step) → relevant skill file
  • New skill opportunity (recurring workflow that could be encoded) → note in summary for the user

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 2d ago First seen · 71 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A d414a01130c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reflect is a skill published in the GitHub repository poteto/noodle (267 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 657 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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