instinct-import

instinct-import is a command for coding agents from oguzsh/claudey. It costs 15 tokens per session (894 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of instinct-import, MIT.

A command that imports shared workflow rules, called instincts, from a local file, web address, teammate, or other source.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bring team conventions, community collections, Skill Creator results, or backed-up instincts into your local instinct library.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying shared rules and checks imported items for format problems and duplicates.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the claudey plugin — 8 skills, 11 commands, 1 agent, 7 hooks shipped together

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 commands/oguzsh/claudey/instinct-import
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oguzsh/claudey

Or install claudey, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 11 commands, 1 agent, 7 hooks.

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 894 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00015 $0.00894
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured 5d ago against content hash ea701c572363, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instinct-import 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to instinct-import — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

commands/instinct-import.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instinct Import Command

Implementation

Run the instinct CLI using the plugin root path:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/continuous-learning-v2/scripts/instinct-cli.py" import <file-or-url> [--dry-run] [--force] [--min-confidence 0.7]

Or if CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is not set (manual installation):

python3 ~/.claude/skills/continuous-learning-v2/scripts/instinct-cli.py import <file-or-url>

Import instincts from:

  • Teammates' exports
  • Skill Creator (repo analysis)
  • Community collections
  • Previous machine backups

Usage

/instinct-import team-instincts.yaml
/instinct-import https://github.com/org/repo/instincts.yaml
/instinct-import --from-skill-creator acme/webapp

What to Do

  1. Fetch the instinct file (local path or URL)
  2. Parse and validate the format
  3. Check for duplicates with existing instincts
  4. Merge or add new instincts
  5. Save to ~/.claude/homunculus/instincts/inherited/

Import Process

📥 Importing instincts from: team-instincts.yaml
================================================

Found 12 instincts to import.

Analyzing conflicts...

## New Instincts (8)
These will be added:
  ✓ use-zod-validation (confidence: 0.7)
  ✓ prefer-named-exports (confidence: 0.65)
  ✓ test-async-functions (confidence: 0.8)
  ...

## Duplicate Instincts (3)
Already have similar instincts:
  ⚠️ prefer-functional-style
     Local: 0.8 confidence, 12 observations
     Import: 0.7 confidence
     → Keep local (higher confidence)

  ⚠️ test-first-workflow
     Local: 0.75 confidence
     Import: 0.9 confidence
     → Update to import (higher confidence)

## Conflicting Instincts (1)
These contradict local instincts:
  ❌ use-classes-for-services
     Conflicts with: avoid-classes
     → Skip (requires manual resolution)

---
Import 8 new, update 1, skip 3?

Merge Strategies

For Duplicates

When importing an instinct that matches an existing one:

  • Higher confidence wins: Keep the one with higher confidence
  • Merge evidence: Combine observation counts
  • Update timestamp: Mark as recently validated

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 5d ago First seen · 144 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A ea701c572363

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instinct-import is a command published in the GitHub repository oguzsh/claudey (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 894 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to instinct-import, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.