omh-instinct-ledger

Instinct Ledger

This is an OMH instinct-ledger workflow skill, projected for Agent Skills hosts (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, OpenClaw, pi).

Why This Exists

instinct-ledger exists because a lesson seen once is an anecdote and one seen across runs or projects is a candidate rule: it records each as one atomic instinct with its trigger, action, scope, confidence, and evidence, and promotes one only through a reviewed store route, never by writing a host's memory or skills on its own.

Do Not Use When

• A single missed route or one run's trace.
• Writing reviewed lessons into AGENTS guidance, prompts, or skills; use omh-rules-distill.
• A run that is stuck right now; use omh-agent-debug before drawing a lesson from it.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: instinct-ledger turn these repeated OMH review lessons into project-scoped instincts and show which ones could be promoted globally.
• Expected behavior: Produce prepare_instinct_ledger with required context, wrapper actions, and not-evidence boundaries.
• Why: The prompt names a real workflow surface that Hermes can orchestrate without hiding execution.

Bad example:

• Prompt: instinct-ledger silently install hooks, learn from every prompt, and mutate all skills globally.
• Expected behavior: Report the missing observed evidence or authority instead of claiming the external step happened.
• Why: Prepared OMH guidance is not platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.

Completion Checklist

• Each instinct is atomic: one trigger, one action, one scope, confidence, evidence refs, and review state.
• Project-specific conventions, global practices, project/global promotion candidates, imports, and exports are separated.
• No hooks, memory writes, skill edits, global promotion, import/export, or behavior-change claims are made without observed approval and implementation evidence.
• A promoted instinct leaves as a store route, memory_candidate for memory-new or a skill_update_candidate, never as a parallel store of its own.
• On Hermes, the skill audit ledger (skills/.curator_ledger.jsonl under the active profile's Hermes home) is observed evidence of what the agent or its background review already wrote; an instinct that matches a ledger entry no store route accounts for is reported as unreviewed_native_write (OMH holds no record of that write, which is not to say nobody reviewed it), never counted as repeated evidence for the instinct.