instinct-export

instinct-export is a skill for Claude Code from mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter. It costs 103 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for exporting learned, confidence-rated working rules into a portable YAML file. YAML is a plain-text format that can store structured information for use by another machine, coding setup, or teammate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a personal or team rule pack, hand learned practices to a teammate, move them to another laptop, or export rules for one project.
Why use it?
It makes project knowledge easier to back up, share, and move between working environments. It can limit the export to rules above a chosen confidence level or include all available rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-brain-starter plugin — 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a personal or team rule pack, hand learned practices to a teammate, move them to another laptop, or export rules for one project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter/instinct-export
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter --skill instinct-export
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-brain-starter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 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 $0.00103 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00054

Measured 9d ago against content hash 53dca2ca0b1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instinct-export 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/instinct-export/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

/instinct-export — portable instinct pack out

{SKILL_DIR} = this skill's own folder (locally: the directory this SKILL.md lives in; a served brain substitutes the real absolute path before you read this). Shared starter files live at the repo root two levels up: {SKILL_DIR}/../... If a path does not resolve, name the missing file and stop — never guess another location.

Turns your confidence-scored instincts into a portable, evidence-backed YAML pack. The unit of sharing is the instinct: id / trigger / confidence / domain / source_repo plus an action and evidence body.

ECC source pattern: portable instinct format with /instinct-import. Reimplemented clean per license-hygiene.

Run

# current project's instincts + globals, only confidence >= 0.70, to a file
python3 "{SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/instinct.py" export \
  --min-confidence 0.70 --out ~/instinct-pack.yaml

# everything regardless of project scope
python3 "{SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/instinct.py" export --all --out ~/all.yaml

Flags:

  • --project <id> — scope to one project id (default: the current working tree's).
  • --min-confidence <f> — drop instincts below this effective confidence.
  • --all — ignore project scope, export every instinct.
  • --out <file> — write to a file (omit to print to stdout).

confidence in the pack is the EFFECTIVE value (staleness decay already applied), so an importer inherits an honest, time-adjusted score.

Sharing note

A curated, org-specific export is a deliverable in its own right — a shared "house instinct library" a team can install into every member's harness. Scrub any project-private instinct before sharing a pack outside your org; --project global keeps a pack to cross-project rules only.

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. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 53dca2ca0b1a

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instinct-export is a skill published in the GitHub repository mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter (36 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 538 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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