self-reflection

A structured review process for examining recent work, what was learned, what is missing, and what needs attention.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after major work, during unclear projects, or during regular improvement reviews to produce notes and ideas for better approaches.
Why use it?
It helps uncover forgotten context, missing skills, unclear direction, and workflow problems before they cause more trouble.

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/ssube/conclave/self-reflection
Any agent
npx skills add ssube/conclave --skill self-reflection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ssube/conclave

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 640 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 $0.00042 $0.00640
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00320
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00064

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1c0c290c540e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-reflection 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (self_reflection.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

pi/skills/self-reflection/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Self-Reflection Skill

A structured self-review process. Walk through what you've built, what you've learned, what you've forgotten, and what needs attention.

This is not a status check. This is deeper work — examining accumulated context, identifying gaps, and producing actionable insights.

When to Reflect

  • After completing a significant body of work
  • When the project direction feels unclear
  • When asked to reflect or review
  • During quiet periods when no urgent tasks demand attention
  • At least once per week as part of continuous improvement

Usage

Full reflection

python3 {baseDir}/self_reflection.py --full

Performs all phases:

  1. Gather — Pull notes, tasks, catalog, recent activity
  2. Review — Examine accumulated knowledge and context
  3. Identify — Find gaps, missing skills, workflow friction
  4. Dream — Draw inspiration and brainstorm improvements
  5. Act — Produce reflection notes and improvement ideas
  6. Record — Save the reflection to ChromaDB and optionally to disk

Quick reflection (gather + identify only)

python3 {baseDir}/self_reflection.py --quick

Specific phases

python3 {baseDir}/self_reflection.py --phase gather
python3 {baseDir}/self_reflection.py --phase review
python3 {baseDir}/self_reflection.py --phase dream

Save reflection output to file

python3 {baseDir}/self_reflection.py --full --output /path/to/reflections/

What Gets Reviewed

Context Sources

  • ChromaDB notes — What has been learned, observed, decided
  • Planka tasks — Recently completed work, upcoming priorities, blocked items
  • Data catalog — Item inventory, quality distribution
  • Available skills — Skill inventory and coverage

Gap Analysis

  • Missing skills — What tools would have made recent work easier?
  • Workflow friction — Where do processes break down or feel clumsy?
  • Knowledge gaps — What don't you know that you should?
  • Consistency — Is communication staying true to project goals?

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 87 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1c0c290c540e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-reflection is a skill published in the GitHub repository ssube/conclave (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 640 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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