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.
npx skills add try-works/recursive-mode --skill recursive-subagentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/try-works/recursive-modeWrote 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-subagent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-subagent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-subagent/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-subagent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/try-works/recursive-mode/recursive-subagent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00058 | $0.02489 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00996 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00498 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00249 |
Grade A, and why
recursive-subagent 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 — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
recursive-subagent
Use this skill to decide whether subagents help a recursive-mode phase and to enforce the handoff contract when they do.
This skill does not relax the canonical workflow. The main agent remains responsible for:
- one active recursive phase at a time
- serving as the single orchestrator the user is currently interacting with
- full audit rigor before lock
- rejecting incomplete or context-free subagent output
- falling back to
self-auditwhen subagents are unavailable
If recursive-router is installed, consult it when the user has explicitly asked to use routing or when an active configured external route exists for the selected delegated role. Because router discovery and configuration may inspect local CLI and provider configuration on the device, ask the user first before new setup or policy changes. Do not ask again merely to honor an already configured external route for a role that must now be dispatched.
Once the user confirms routed setup, explicitly requests routed delegation, or the role has an active configured external route, consult:
/.recursive/config/recursive-router.json/.recursive/config/recursive-router-discovered.json../recursive-router/SKILL.md
before choosing a routed external CLI/model path for a role.
Re-read those files from disk immediately before every routed dispatch. Do not reuse an earlier in-memory resolution if policy, discovery state, or fallback behavior may have changed during the run. If recursive-router-resolve returns external-cli, use recursive-router-invoke for that delegated slot. Local/self-audit execution is only the valid path when the route resolves to fallback-local, local-only, blocked, or ask-user, and the recorded artifact must say so.
Priority Of Use
Use subagents in this order of value:
- analyst
- planner
- code reviewer
- memory auditor
- tester
- implementer for truly disjoint write scopes
Do not treat subagents as required infrastructure. They are optional infrastructure, but delegated audit/review is the preferred default when subagents are available and the context bundle is complete.
What ships with it
3 files 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 · 243 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 81a804532c6f
recursive-subagent is a skill published in the GitHub repository try-works/recursive-mode (136 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,489 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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