recursive-spine-method

recursive-spine-method is a skill for Claude Code from slopstopper/recursive-spine. It costs 64 tokens per session (745 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to the recursive-spine method, a way to track software work through GitHub issues and milestones instead of written status ledgers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn or review the method's five principles, module system, work-tracking convention, and approach to designing a repository's own terminology.
Why use it?
It explains where work state should live and gives builders a consistent structure for organizing modules and repository-specific conventions. It only teaches the method and does not change anything.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the recursive-spine plugin — 8 skills shipped together

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/slopstopper/recursive-spine/recursive-spine-method
Any agent
npx skills add slopstopper/recursive-spine --skill recursive-spine-method
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slopstopper/recursive-spine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install recursive-spine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for recursive-spine-method

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 745 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00064 $0.00745
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00075

Measured 5d ago against content hash 148d1e9ae7b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recursive-spine-method 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 5d 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/recursive-spine-method/SKILL.md · 63 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 63 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 148d1e9ae7b4

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recursive-spine-method is a skill published in the GitHub repository slopstopper/recursive-spine (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), with no licence file. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 745 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 2026-08-31.

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