incarnate

A workflow for turning a contributor's background and conversation history into a named advisor profile. The profile records how that person tends to think and reason.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create or update advisor profiles, import Markdown conversations, or extract thinking patterns without creating a profile.
Why use it?
It organizes scattered conversations into a reusable profile instead of relying on a short or vague persona.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/quantumbfs/sci-brain/incarnate
Any agent
npx skills add QuantumBFS/sci-brain --skill incarnate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QuantumBFS/sci-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,954 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00052 $0.02954
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01477
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00295

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1202b7510208, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incarnate 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 2d 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/incarnate/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Advisor Profile Generation

Onboard a contributor and create a named advisor profile. The profile captures how a real person thinks — their cognitive style, attention patterns, reasoning strengths, and conversation dynamics — so the brainstorm-ideas skill can launch them as a subagent collaborator rather than a thin inline persona.

Choose the mode

  • Create an advisor: start at Step 1 and run the complete workflow.
  • Update an advisor from new conversations: read the existing advisors/<slug>/profile.md, preserve its background, then start at Step 2 with the new JSONL or Markdown sources.
  • Import Markdown dialogs: ask for the file paths and target advisor, then use the Markdown path in Step 2. For a new advisor, collect the Step 1 background first.
  • Analyze thinking patterns only: run Conversation Pattern Extraction and stop after writing thinking-pattern.md and master-thinking.md; do not synthesize an advisor profile unless the user asks.

Step 1 — Personal Profile

Ask the contributor to provide their academic/professional background:

  • (a) Tell me yourself (field, experience, what you've worked on)
  • (b) Zotero library — follow the know-me-better skill instructions (skills/know-me-better/SKILL.md) to index publications
  • (c) Google Scholar profile — follow the know-me-better skill instructions to index publications

From the response, extract:

  • Name (ask if not provided)
  • Field and subfields
  • Key research themes
  • Technical skills
  • Notable contributions
  • Publication sources if available (homepage, Google Scholar, ORCID, DBLP, arXiv author page)
  • Voice preference if available (spoken language, accent, or preferred edge-tts voice)

Hold this information for Step 4.

Advisor KB. Each advisor gets a private knowledge base at advisors/<slug>/.knowledge/ (shape identical to the project KB: INDEX.md, NOTES.md, .raw/, .figures/, rendered <id>_<slug>.md files). The advisor's BibTeX namespace lives at advisors/<slug>/.knowledge/references.bib (i.e. $KB/references.bib for the resolved advisor KB). When know-me-better or download-ref is invoked from this skill, resolve the advisor KB path via python3 skills/download-ref/helpers/resolve_kb.py --advisor <slug> and pass it as --kb "$KB" so writes land in the advisor KB rather than the project KB. (Users who set $SCIBRAIN_KB_DIRNAME get the right directory name automatically.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 255 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 1202b7510208

Subscribe to this mod's changes

incarnate is a skill published in the GitHub repository QuantumBFS/sci-brain (81 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,954 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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