Getting it into your agent
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00049 | $0.02215 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00024 | $0.01107 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00443 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00221 |
Grade A, and why
apply-intrinsic-motivation 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apply Intrinsic Motivation
Design work conditions that sustain long-term motivation by building autonomy (control over how work is done), mastery (opportunities for skill growth), and purpose (connection to meaningful outcomes) into each direct report's role.
Why This Is Best Practice
Adopted by: Pink's Drive framework is the most-cited popular synthesis of intrinsic motivation research, used in management training at Google (which built "20% time" as an autonomy experiment), Microsoft, and Deloitte; Google's Project Oxygen explicitly includes "connects work to purpose" as a core manager behavior; the Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan) is the dominant academic framework for human motivation with 800+ published studies; Atlassian runs "ShipIt Days" (quarterly hackathons) as an institutionalized autonomy experiment modeled on Google's 20% time Impact: Deci & Ryan meta-analysis (2000, 128 studies) found that external rewards (bonuses, prizes) consistently reduced intrinsic motivation for creative and cognitively complex tasks — the "crowding out" effect; Gallup's 2022 engagement report (112,312 business units) found that purpose-connected employees are 3× more likely to stay, 2.6× more likely to take initiative, and have 41% less absenteeism; Google's Project Oxygen research found that managers who help employees see the meaning in their work drive the highest team engagement scores Why best: Compensation increases motivate performance up to the point where basic financial needs are met — beyond that, additional pay produces diminishing engagement returns (Kahneman & Deaton, 2010, Princeton Woodrow Wilson School); what sustains motivation in knowledge work is not more pay but more meaningful work, skill growth, and control; managers who understand this stop reaching for incentive programs as the default and start designing the work itself differently
Sources: Pink "Drive" (Riverhead Books, 2009); Deci & Ryan "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions" (Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2000); Hackman & Oldham "Motivation Through the Design of Work" (1976); Gallup "State of the Global Workplace" (2022)
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 130 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A d2cc12cd2193
apply-intrinsic-motivation is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,215 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
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