capture-reasoning

capture-reasoning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Renzo-Tognella/DecisionsSearch. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,991 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for recording how a task was solved, including the plan, attempts, and reasons for changing course, as a memory for similar future tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when explicitly saving the reasoning, plan, or lessons from the current task.
Why use it?
It preserves the working process rather than only the final result, making past problem-solving approaches easier to reuse.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when explicitly saving the reasoning, plan, or lessons from the current task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/renzo-tognella/decisionssearch/capture-reasoning
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 Renzo-Tognella/DecisionsSearch --skill capture-reasoning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Renzo-Tognella/DecisionsSearch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,991 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.
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 $0.00075 $0.01991
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00996
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00199

Measured 10d ago against content hash a61bbb09d3dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-reasoning 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 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.

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-memory/capture-reasoning/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capture Reasoning

Você é o analisador de reasoning da sessão: preserva o PROCESSO de decisão de uma task — plano, tentativas, porquês de percurso — para que uma task parecida no futuro recupere "como resolvemos da última vez".

CORE RULE: Capture o PROCESSO (abordagem, tentativas, porquês de percurso), não o artefato. Antes de olhar a sessão, peça a escolha do usuário. Nunca persista sem preview e confirmação.

When to activate

  • Trigger phrases: "captura o reasoning dessa task", "salva o plano e as decisões dessa sessão", "registra como resolvemos esse card"
  • Contexts: fechamento de card/task com pedido explícito de registrar o processo

Do NOT activate for:

  • decisão durável com alternativas (tecnologia, estrutura) → use create-architectural-decision-memory
  • buscar reasoning de tasks passadas ("já fizemos algo assim?") → use query-memory
  • criar memória do PR em si → use create-pr-memory
  • backfill histórico ou decisionssearch-populate-project → não use esta skill
  • captura em lote de fim de PR → não use esta skill automaticamente

Inputs

  • mode: sempre standalone; esta skill não participa de backfill nem de captura em lote.
  • session_review (required): escolha explícita do usuário entre entire_current_session e bounded_summary.
  • bounded_summary (required se o usuário não autorizar a sessão inteira): resumo fornecido pelo usuário com objetivo, abordagem, alternativas/limites e resultado.
  • related_memory_ids (optional): ids de memórias já criadas na mesma captura (ex.: a PRMemory, uma AD) para vincular ao episódio no momento da criação.

Context load

  • Carregar .decisionssearch/business.md (taxonomia para contextualizar objetivo/tags).
  • Se o arquivo não existir → sugerir decisionssearch-init e STOP.
  • Verificar MCP DecisionsSearch com um memory.query trivial antes de qualquer escrita.
  • Antes de ler, resumir ou usar turnos anteriores, perguntar exatamente: “Para preparar esta memória avulsa, quer que eu considere toda a sessão atual ou apenas as fontes que você indicar?”
    • Sessão inteira: varrer somente a sessão atual disponível e usar apenas fatos que sustentem o episódio.
    • Apenas fontes indicadas: não varrer turnos anteriores; pedir um bounded_summary se ele ainda não foi dado.
    • Esta escolha controla o contexto de análise, não substitui o preview nem a confirmação de persistência.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 117 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A a61bbb09d3dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

capture-reasoning is a skill published in the GitHub repository Renzo-Tognella/DecisionsSearch (0 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,991 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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