instinct-import

instinct-import is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Luohaothu/everything-codex. It costs 22 tokens per session (339 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that imports reusable coding instincts from a team, another project, or a backup file and handles duplicates and conflicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate and merge an instincts YAML file, preview changes with a dry run, or force an import when conflicts are acceptable.
Why use it?
It helps share useful development habits while avoiding accidental replacement of local patterns when imported advice disagrees.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads ~/.codex paths; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to validate and merge an instincts YAML file, preview changes with a dry run, or force an import when conflicts are acceptable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/luohaothu/everything-codex/instinct-import
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Luohaothu/everything-codex --skill instinct-import
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Luohaothu/everything-codex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 339 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00022 $0.00339
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00136
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8ea8cec15c6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

skills/instinct-import/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Instinct Import Skill

Import instincts from external sources with conflict resolution.

Usage

/instinct-import team-instincts.yaml
/instinct-import --dry-run team-instincts.yaml
/instinct-import --force team-instincts.yaml

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 ~/.codex/instincts/inherited/

Merge Strategies

For Duplicates

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

For Conflicts

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

Import Report

Import complete!

Added: 8 instincts
Updated: 1 instinct
Skipped: 3 instincts (2 duplicates, 1 conflict)

New instincts saved to: ~/.codex/instincts/inherited/

Flags

  • --dry-run: Preview without importing
  • --force: Import even if conflicts exist
  • --merge-strategy <higher|local|import>: How to handle duplicates
  • --min-confidence <n>: Only import instincts above threshold
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. 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 8ea8cec15c6b

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instinct-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository Luohaothu/everything-codex (25 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 339 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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