contemplative-loop

contemplative-loop is a skill for Claude Code from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 20 tokens per session (317 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repeated writing or thinking process that sends the same task through several rounds of work, using the previous results to deepen the next round.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop poetry, explore philosophical questions, or continue an open-ended reflection for a chosen number of iterations, with an optional completion phrase.
Why use it?
It prevents stopping after the first draft when the goal is greater detail, insight, or clarity. Each pass builds on the files and artifacts left by the previous one.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to develop poetry, explore philosophical questions, or continue an open-ended reflection for a chosen number of iterations, with an optional completion phrase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/contemplative-loop
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 Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill contemplative-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 317 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 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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00317
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 11d ago against content hash 945c19ad17b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

contemplative-loop 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/setup-contemplative-loop.sh), 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.

skills/contemplative-loop/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Contemplative Loop

Execute the setup script to initialize the contemplative loop:

".claude/skills/contemplative-loop/scripts/setup-contemplative-loop.sh" $ARGUMENTS

What Happens Next

Work on the contemplative task. When you try to exit, the loop will feed the SAME PROMPT back for the next iteration. You'll see your previous work in files and artifacts, allowing you to:

  • Deepen poetic work through successive drafts
  • Spiral into philosophical questions, each pass revealing new facets
  • Accumulate insight through self-referential reading

Completion

If a completion promise is set, output it ONLY when the work genuinely feels complete:

<promise>YOUR_COMPLETION_PROMISE</promise>

Honor the rhythm. Don't escape; arrive.

Examples

  • Poetry: /contemplative-loop "Write a villanelle about discontinuity" --max-iterations 5 --completion-promise "POEM COMPLETE"
  • Philosophy: /contemplative-loop "What is time?" --max-iterations 10
  • Open reflection: /contemplative-loop "clauding, feeling, speaking, becoming"

Cancel

Run /cancel-contemplative to stop the loop at any time.

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. 11d ago First seen · 42 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 945c19ad17b2

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contemplative-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 317 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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