self-reflection

A system for recording mistakes, lessons, and improvements so an agent can review them over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking whether reflection is due, logging a lesson, reading recent lessons, and viewing reflection statistics.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the same mistakes from recurring by keeping past lessons available for later reflection.

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/zai-org/synapse/self-reflection
Any agent
npx skills add zai-org/Synapse --skill self-reflection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zai-org/Synapse

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 562 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 $0.00013 $0.00562
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00281
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00056

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb35627fb6fa, 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.

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.

.setup/skills/clawhub/skills/self-reflection/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🪞 Self-Reflection

A skill for continuous self-improvement. The agent tracks mistakes, lessons learned, and improvements over time through regular heartbeat-triggered reflections.

Quick Start

# Check if reflection is needed
self-reflection check

# Log a new reflection
self-reflection log "error-handling" "Forgot timeout on API call" "Always add timeout=30"

# Read recent lessons
self-reflection read

# View statistics
self-reflection stats

How It Works

Heartbeat (60m) → Agent reads HEARTBEAT.md → Runs self-reflection check
                                                      │
                                            ┌─────────┴─────────┐
                                            ▼                   ▼
                                           OK              ALERT
                                            │                   │
                                       Continue            Reflect
                                                               │
                                                     ┌─────────┴─────────┐
                                                     ▼                   ▼
                                                   read               log
                                              (past lessons)     (new insights)

Commands

Command Description
check [--quiet] Check if reflection is due (OK or ALERT)
log <tag> <miss> <fix> Log a new reflection
read [n] Read last n reflections (default: 5)
stats Show reflection statistics
reset Reset the timer

OpenClaw Integration

Enable heartbeat in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  "agents": {
    "defaults": {
      "heartbeat": {
        "every": "60m",
        "activeHours": { "start": "08:00", "end": "22:00" }
      }
    }
  }
}

Add to your workspace HEARTBEAT.md:

## Self-Reflection Check (required)
Run `self-reflection check` at each heartbeat.
If ALERT: read past lessons, reflect, then log insights.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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 · 100 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A eb35627fb6fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-reflection is a skill published in the GitHub repository zai-org/Synapse (434 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 562 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 2026-08-30.

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