What is cmd_instinct_status?

A command that shows the workspace's long-term memory file, pending memory items, and memory index status. It also previews notes that could be promoted into longer-term memory.

Use it to inspect MEMORY.md, count its sections, check the memory index, and review pending promotions.

It makes it easier to see what the agent remembers and whether new information is waiting to be organized.

cmd_instinct_status — Skill for Claude Code by majiang213

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.

Any agent

npx skills add majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS --skill cmd_instinct_status

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 428 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00021	$0.00428
Opus 5	$0.00010	$0.00214
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00086
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00043

Measured 9d ago against content hash a6c75eb95c66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cmd_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 9d 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/cmd_instinct_status/SKILL.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

Project Path

The first argument is the project path. Before doing anything else:

Extract the project path from the first argument
Verify the path exists
Work within that directory for all file operations and shell commands

Memory Status

Shows the current state of long-term memory (MEMORY.md) and short-term recalls pending promotion for the active OpenClaw workspace.

Usage

/skill cmd_instinct_status <project-path>

What to Do

Read MEMORY.md from the main workspace:
```
cat ~/.openclaw/workspace-main/MEMORY.md
```
If the file does not exist or is empty, note: "No MEMORY.md found — workspace has no long-term memory yet."
Count the ##-level headings in MEMORY.md to get the total number of memory sections.
Run memory status to show the index:
```
openclaw memory status
```
Run promotion preview to show what is pending:
```
openclaw memory promote
```
(without --apply — preview only)
Display the output:

============================================================
  MEMORY STATUS
============================================================

  Workspace: ~/.openclaw/workspace-main/
  MEMORY.md sections: <count>

## LONG-TERM MEMORY (MEMORY.md)

<full MEMORY.md content>

## SHORT-TERM RECALLS (pending promotion)

<output from openclaw memory promote>

## MEMORY INDEX

<output from openclaw memory status>

Notes

MEMORY.md is injected at every agent bootstrap via the session-bootstrap hook
Short-term recalls are stored in ~/.openclaw/memory/main.sqlite
Run /skill cmd_promote to apply pending promotions to MEMORY.md

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.

9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A a6c75eb95c66

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cmd_instinct_status is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 428 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.

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