recursive-spine-nudge

recursive-spine-nudge is a skill for Claude Code from slopstopper/recursive-spine. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A conversation-review tool that selects a small number of system-generated prompts after a recursive-spine-digest sweep. The prompts point to work that is unblocked, aging, stalled, or newly connected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Suggesting conversation starters about stalled or aging items, newly available work, and connections between tasks.
Why use it?
It helps the owner notice follow-up opportunities without performing the work itself.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Suggesting conversation starters about stalled or aging items, newly available work, and connections between tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/slopstopper/recursive-spine/recursive-spine-nudge
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 slopstopper/recursive-spine --skill recursive-spine-nudge
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

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,222 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 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 $0.00068 $0.01222
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00122

Measured 9d ago against content hash 28b11a4c2c32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recursive-spine-nudge 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 9d 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-nudge/SKILL.md · 113 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.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 113 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 28b11a4c2c32

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recursive-spine-nudge is a skill published in the GitHub repository slopstopper/recursive-spine (2 stars, last pushed 24d ago), with no licence file. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,222 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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