Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent/main/.claude/skills/cycle/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent/cycle)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent/cycle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent/cycle/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent/cycle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent/cycle.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00025 | $0.05538 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.02769 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.01108 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00554 |
Grade A, and why
cycle 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 540 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Post-Session Cycle (Psychology Agent)
Ensures every session's decisions, findings, and reasoning propagate through the full documentation chain. Run at the end of any session with meaningful work.
When to run
Run /cycle once, after all work in the session completes. Do not run it mid-session when the user might continue working — any work done after /cycle produces undocumented changes that require running /cycle again, duplicating effort and creating redundant commits.
Gotcha (Session 57): If the user asks "what's next?" and the answer leads to more work, that work should finish before /cycle runs. The phrase "what's next?" can mean "what should we do next session?" (safe to /cycle) or "let's keep going" (defer /cycle). When ambiguous, ask.
/cycle does NOT call itself. If post-cycle work occurs, the next session's /cycle Step 2 cross-check catches anything that slipped through.
Design principle: The psychology agent maintains several overlapping documents at different levels of abstraction. Each serves a distinct audience and purpose:
| Document | Audience | Purpose | Abstraction |
|---|---|---|---|
journal.md |
Peer reviewers, future self | Research narrative — why decisions were made, what was resolved, what the data or reasoning revealed | Highest — tells the story |
docs/architecture.md |
Technical collaborators | Design decisions and system spec — all resolved choices, authority hierarchy, component specs | Medium — shows the decisions |
lab-notebook.md |
Future self, collaborators | Session log — what happened, when, with what artifacts; Current State block | Chronological — records the timeline |
ideas.md |
Authors | Speculative research directions — not committed, not retired; marked by precondition | Generative — captures the possible |
TODO.md |
Authors | Forward-looking task backlog — open items only; completed items route to lab-notebook | Operational |
MEMORY.md |
Claude across sessions | Volatile orientation state — active thread, design decisions, cogarch quick-ref | Cross-session context |
docs/cognitive-triggers.md |
Claude | Full T1–T12 trigger system — canonical, in-repo | Operational infrastructure |
CLAUDE.md |
Claude Code (auto-read) | Stable conventions — communication policy, accessibility, project structure, skills | Foundational — how the project works |
docs/MEMORY-snapshot.md |
Fresh Claude sessions | Committed copy of MEMORY.md — portable orientation for fresh installs | Bootstrap context |
docs/cognitive-triggers.md |
Claude + fresh sessions | Full trigger system — canonical location (no separate snapshot needed) | Operational infrastructure + bootstrap |
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 540 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A b949d35775c6
cycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository safety-quotient-lab/psychology-agent (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 5,538 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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