Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/try-works/recursive-modenpx agentmods add skills/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-routerWrote 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/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-router)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-router"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-router/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.
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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 | $0.00036 | $0.04543 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.01817 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00909 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00454 |
Grade A, and why
recursive-router 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 1mo 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 — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
recursive-router
Use this skill when recursive-mode and recursive-subagent have already established a delegated role and you want the route to be driven by a user-editable CLI/model policy instead of ad hoc controller choice.
This skill does not relax recursive-mode. Routed external output is still untrusted until the main agent verifies it against actual files, actual diffs, and actual recursive artifacts.
Controller Boundary
The main orchestrator remains the model the user is currently interacting with in their CLI, IDE, or agent session.
recursive-router does not become a second orchestrator or a second workflow spec. It only helps the current controller choose and invoke an external CLI/model for a bounded delegated role.
The current controller remains responsible for:
- selecting and sequencing the active recursive phase
- reading the governing recursive docs before delegation
- using
recursive-subagentand the canonical review-bundle / prompt-bundle contract - preparing the delegated context bundle or prompt bundle
- making sure routed roles receive the needed docs and exact output contract
- rejecting routed output that is incomplete, context-free, or off-contract
- deciding whether to repair, re-route, fall back, or continue the workflow
- fixing issues introduced by delegated output and rerunning the audit-repair loop until the real gates pass
Invocation Boundary
Router setup, local CLI discovery, and route reconfiguration are opt-in because those operations may inspect local CLI installs plus provider/model configuration on the user's device. Only run init, probe, configure, or other discovery/configuration steps when routing has been explicitly requested or an already active routed policy needs a refreshed inventory to execute.
Valid explicit routing examples include phrases containing:
routeroutingrouterset modelset providerconfigure routingconfigure model routinguse <provider/model> for <role>
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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 316 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A cce552dc2ddc
recursive-router is a skill published in the GitHub repository try-works/recursive-mode (136 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 4,543 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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