deepen

A research and editing command for strengthening one note in a personal knowledge vault. It checks how complete the note is, fills important gaps, verifies sources, and moves it forward when ready.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on a named note or let it choose the shallowest inbox note, then research missing context, rewrite the note in the vault's style, and record where the information came from.
Why use it?
It helps turn thin or poorly supported notes into clearer, better-sourced material without requiring the user to decide how much research each note needs.

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/robinslange/learning-loop/deepen
Any agent
npx skills add robinslange/learning-loop --skill deepen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robinslange/learning-loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,060 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 $0.00056 $0.01060
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash a6c5080428d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deepen 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.

plugin/skills/deepen/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deepen: Research and Enrichment

Overview

Launches the note-deepener agent to strengthen a single note. The agent assesses maturity, researches gaps scaled to need, rewrites in persona voice, verifies sources, and promotes when ready. Shallow notes get heavy research; deep notes get a light touch.

When to Use

  • /deepen <note-name>: target a specific note
  • /deepen: no argument; auto-picks the note most in need of work — the shallowest 0-inbox/ note OR a gate-demoted 1-fleeting/ note (verification markers / source: unverified) that has no other resurfacing path
  • When /inbox flags a note as needing deepening (including the fleeting NEEDS-DEEPEN recommendations)
  • When a note feels thin and the user wants to strengthen it

Provenance

This skill emits provenance events for pipeline observability. Run each Bash command silently.

At session start:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/provenance-emit.js" '{"agent":"deepen","skill":"deepen","action":"session-start","target":"NOTE_FILENAME"}'

At session end:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/provenance-emit.js" '{"agent":"deepen","skill":"deepen","action":"session-end","target":"NOTE_FILENAME","promoted":true|false}'

Per-note tracking is handled automatically by the PostToolUse hook.

Process

Step 0: Parameter Resolution

No argument (/deepen): Run auto-pick immediately (the agent picks the note most in need of work — the shallowest inbox note OR a gate-demoted marker-bearing 1-fleeting/ note — no prompting needed). After presenting results, mention the targeted form in one line:

Deepened [note]. To target a specific note: /deepen "note name".

Argument provided: Proceed immediately.

Step 1: Launch Agent

Launch the note-deepener agent with:

  • note_path: Path to the target note (resolve via Glob if only a name was given)
  • vault_path: {{VAULT}}/

The agent definition is at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agents/note-deepener.md (resolve to a literal path before dispatch — see agents-shared/vault-io.md → Placeholders).

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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 · 81 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A a6c5080428d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deepen is a skill published in the GitHub repository robinslange/learning-loop (11 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,060 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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