instinct-import

instinct-import is a command for Claude Code from sangrokjung/claude-forge. It costs 15 tokens per session (862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for importing learned working preferences, called instincts, from a file, URL, teammate, or other source. It validates the data, finds duplicates, and merges new entries into the local collection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Importing shared coding conventions, testing habits, and other reusable agent preferences.
Why use it?
It avoids manually recreating project conventions or learned patterns when moving between machines or sharing them with a team.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the claude-forge plugin — 33 skills, 39 commands, 17 agents shipped together

Good fit Importing shared coding conventions, testing habits, and other reusable agent preferences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/sangrokjung/claude-forge/instinct-import
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sangrokjung/claude-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 39 commands, 17 agents.

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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 862 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 $0.00015 $0.00862
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00431
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00086

Measured 4d ago against content hash 210e2e58f37c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 4d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/continuous-learning-v2/commands/instinct-import.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instinct Import Command

Implementation

python3 ~/.claude/skills/continuous-learning-v2/scripts/instinct-cli.py import <file-or-url> [--dry-run] [--force] [--min-confidence 0.7]

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

For Conflicts

When importing an instinct that contradicts an existing one:

  • Skip by default: Don't import conflicting instincts
  • Flag for review: Mark both as needing attention
  • Manual resolution: User decides which to keep

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 4d ago First seen · 136 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 210e2e58f37c

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instinct-import is a command published in the GitHub repository sangrokjung/claude-forge (824 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 862 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 2026-09-03.