instinct-status

instinct-status is a command for Claude Code from sangrokjung/claude-forge. It costs 12 tokens per session (516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that lists learned working preferences, called instincts, with their confidence levels and domains. It includes both personal instincts and ones inherited from other sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking learned coding, testing, and workflow preferences, including only low-confidence entries or one domain.
Why use it?
It makes hidden agent behavior visible, so you can see what patterns have been learned and how certain they are.

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 Checking learned coding, testing, and workflow preferences, including only low-confidence entries or one domain.

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

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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README.md
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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 516 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 $0.00012 $0.00516
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00258
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00052

Measured 4d ago against content hash 59c97a50031f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instinct-status 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-status.md · 80 lines

What it actually says

Instinct Status Command

Shows all learned instincts with their confidence scores, grouped by domain.

Implementation

python3 ~/.claude/skills/continuous-learning-v2/scripts/instinct-cli.py status

Usage

/instinct-status
/instinct-status --domain code-style
/instinct-status --low-confidence

What to Do

  1. Read all instinct files from ~/.claude/homunculus/instincts/personal/
  2. Read inherited instincts from ~/.claude/homunculus/instincts/inherited/
  3. Display them grouped by domain with confidence bars

Output Format

📊 Instinct Status
==================

## Code Style (4 instincts)

### prefer-functional-style
Trigger: when writing new functions
Action: Use functional patterns over classes
Confidence: ████████░░ 80%
Source: session-observation | Last updated: 2025-01-22

### use-path-aliases
Trigger: when importing modules
Action: Use @/ path aliases instead of relative imports
Confidence: ██████░░░░ 60%
Source: repo-analysis (github.com/acme/webapp)

## Testing (2 instincts)

### test-first-workflow
Trigger: when adding new functionality
Action: Write test first, then implementation
Confidence: █████████░ 90%
Source: session-observation

## Workflow (3 instincts)

### grep-before-edit
Trigger: when modifying code
Action: Search with Grep, confirm with Read, then Edit
Confidence: ███████░░░ 70%
Source: session-observation

---
Total: 9 instincts (4 personal, 5 inherited)
Observer: Running (last analysis: 5 min ago)

Flags

  • --domain <name>: Filter by domain (code-style, testing, git, etc.)
  • --low-confidence: Show only instincts with confidence < 0.5
  • --high-confidence: Show only instincts with confidence >= 0.7
  • --source <type>: Filter by source (session-observation, repo-analysis, inherited)
  • --json: Output as JSON for programmatic use
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 · 80 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 59c97a50031f

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instinct-status is a command published in the GitHub repository sangrokjung/claude-forge (824 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 516 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.