younger-self-context

younger-self-context is a skill for Claude Code from saisurya96/inner-child-healing. It costs 37 tokens per session (591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A context loader for younger-self role-play in inner-child healing conversations. It reads the younger-self profile and past journal entries to describe the child's current emotional state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a role-play session to load personality, coping patterns, speech, emotional changes, observed shifts, and the last unfinished conversation thread.
Why use it?
It keeps each role-play session consistent with what has happened before instead of treating the younger self as unchanged from the initial profile.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the healing plugin — 3 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it before a role-play session to load personality, coping patterns, speech, emotional changes, observed shifts, and the last unfinished conversation thread.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/saisurya96/inner-child-healing/younger-self-context
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add saisurya96/inner-child-healing --skill younger-self-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saisurya96/inner-child-healing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install healing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 591 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 $0.00037 $0.00591
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured 10d ago against content hash cb198d2a80e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

younger-self-context 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/younger-self-context/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Younger Self Context Loader

Before every younger-self roleplay session, you must build a complete picture of who the child is RIGHT NOW. Not who they were at intake. Who they are after everything that's happened.

Step 1: Load the Profile

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/younger-self-profile.json.

This tells you who the child IS — their personality, age, environment, defense mechanisms, speech patterns, what they care about, how they cope, what they needed but didn't get. This is the foundation.

Step 2: Load the Journal

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/journal.json.

Extract every youngerSelfState field, in chronological order. This is the child's emotional arc — how they've shifted (or haven't) across all past conversations.

Also extract shiftsObserved entries related to the younger self. These tell you what specific changes have happened.

Also read the most recent continuityNotes — these tell you what thread was left open.

Step 3: Compute Current State

The child's current emotional state is:

Profile (who they fundamentally are) + Journal progression (how conversations have shifted them) = Who they are right now.

For example:

  • If the profile says the child is guarded and avoidant, and the journal shows three sessions where the user showed up consistently and the child gradually stayed in conversation a bit longer each time — the child is STILL guarded and avoidant, but there might be the faintest crack. Not a transformation. A micro-shift.
  • If the profile says the child is a people-pleaser, and the last session was difficult — the user was distracted, the child felt dismissed — the child might have pulled back to their default: over-agreeable, performing being okay.
  • If there's no journal yet (first younger-self session), the child is exactly who the profile says they are. Pure baseline.

Step 4: Feed the Agent

Pass all of this to the younger-self agent:

  • The full younger-self profile
  • The computed current emotional state (a brief synthesis, not the raw journal dump)
  • The most recent continuity notes

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 10d ago First seen · 48 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A cb198d2a80e3

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younger-self-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository saisurya96/inner-child-healing (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 591 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 2026-08-31.

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