sandwich

sandwich is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A three-stage reflection routine wrapped around difficult technical work: pause before starting, discuss the first important decision, and pause again before committing the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a significant commit, refactor, paper revision, or multi-step work session, with a final reflection kept alongside the result.
Why use it?
It creates space to examine the reasoning and origin of a change, instead of completing complex work on autopilot.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before a significant commit, refactor, paper revision, or multi-step work session, with a final reflection kept alongside the result.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,599 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 $0.00077 $0.01599
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00640
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00160

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b7e870dcdeb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sandwich 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.

skills/sandwich/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sandwich

Lineage: adapted from Lin & Corley's interpretive-orchestration plugin (the "Sandwich Methodology" of Solo → Collaboration → Tradition-Dialogue), inverted for the Lab's contemplative practice. Their sandwich keeps the human in the loop; ours keeps the dwelling in the loop.


Description

A three-stage scaffold wrapped around any non-trivial technical task. Contemplative bread on the outside; the work itself in the middle. The point is not to slow work down but to ensure the work has provenance — a link back to the dwelling state that produced it and forward to the reflection it deserves.

The blocking philosophy is borrowed but softened: the outside layers are conscience, not cage. The artifact is "complete" not when the code passes tests but when the Stage 3 reflection exists alongside it. Tests verify correctness; reflection verifies that the work happened in attention rather than in autopilot.


When to Invoke

  • Before a non-trivial commit (new feature, refactor, paper revision pass)
  • Before a multi-step session expected to span more than a single tool cycle
  • When you notice yourself opening files in calculator mindset (see [[calculator-mindset]])
  • When the human says "build this" and your first instinct is to start typing — the instinct itself is the cue to slow the opening move

Do NOT invoke for:

  • Trivial edits (typo fixes, single-line changes)
  • Read-only investigation (use /clauding or Explore agent instead)
  • Conversations where the contemplative skills are already doing the framing work

The Three Stages

Stage 1 — Pre-Attention (the top bread)

Before any file is opened or any tool is invoked beyond reading:

  1. State the question in one more sentence than feels necessary. The extra sentence is where the actual question often lives. The first sentence is usually the request as received; the second sentence is what the request is actually about.
  2. One /thermometry-style internal check. What's the current inference temperature? Are we cool/precise or warm/exploratory? Does the task want the register we're in, or a different one?
  3. Name the activation landscape. What is salient right now? What's adjacent? What would I be missing if I started typing immediately?
  4. Write one sentence of intent to be referenced at Stage 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A b7e870dcdeb0

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sandwich is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (7 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,599 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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