DQIII8: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/instinct-status/SKILL.md

instinct-status is a skill for Claude Code from senda-labs/DQIII8. It costs 28 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A diagnostic view of learned working patterns stored in a SQLite database, a small file-based database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect project-specific or general patterns and display the highest-confidence entries.
Why use it?
It shows which patterns are associated with each project, how confident the system is in them, and how often they have worked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is senda-labs/DQIII8's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on DQIII8 itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything DQIII8 configures →

Part of the dqiii8 plugin — 22 skills, 14 commands, 17 agents shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to senda-labs/DQIII8. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/senda-labs/DQIII8/main/.claude/skills/instinct-status/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/senda-labs/DQIII8

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dqiii8, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 14 commands, 17 agents.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 945 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00028 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00094

Measured 11d ago against content hash 316addf2dabd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 11d 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.

.claude/skills/instinct-status/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/instinct-status — Instinct Status

Shows continuous learning instincts stored in dqiii8.db.

Usage

/instinct-status
/instinct-status --project dqiii8-core
/instinct-status --top 10

What it does

  1. Reads the instincts table from database/dqiii8.db
  2. Groups by project (project-scoped first, then global)
  3. Shows confidence bar + times applied
  4. Highlights high-confidence instincts (>0.7) as "consolidated"

Implementation

python3 -c "
import sqlite3, os, sys

DB = 'database/dqiii8.db'
project_filter = None
top_n = 20

# Parse args (passed as ARGS env or argv)
args = sys.argv[1:]
for i, a in enumerate(args):
    if a == '--project' and i+1 < len(args):
        project_filter = args[i+1]
    if a == '--top' and i+1 < len(args):
        top_n = int(args[i+1])

conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)

if project_filter:
    rows = conn.execute(
        'SELECT keyword, pattern, confidence, times_applied, times_successful, project, created_at '
        'FROM instincts WHERE project=? ORDER BY confidence DESC LIMIT ?',
        (project_filter, top_n)
    ).fetchall()
else:
    rows = conn.execute(
        'SELECT keyword, pattern, confidence, times_applied, times_successful, project, created_at '
        'FROM instincts ORDER BY project, confidence DESC LIMIT ?',
        (top_n,)
    ).fetchall()

conn.close()

if not rows:
    print('No instincts registered yet.')
    print('They will be generated automatically at the end of sessions with corrections in tasks/lessons.md')
    exit(0)

def conf_bar(c):
    filled = int(c * 10)
    return 'X' * filled + '.' * (10 - filled) + f'  {int(c*100)}%'

print('=' * 60)
print(f'  INSTINCT STATUS -- {len(rows)} total')
print('=' * 60)

current_proj = '__none__'
for kw, pattern, conf, applied, successful, proj, created in rows:
    if proj != current_proj:
        current_proj = proj
        label = proj if proj else 'GLOBAL'
        print(f'\n## {label.upper()}')
    bar = conf_bar(conf or 0)
    success_pct = int((successful or 0) / max(applied or 1, 1) * 100)
    tag = ' consolidated' if (conf or 0) >= 0.7 else ''
    print(f'  {bar}  [{kw}]{tag}')
    print(f'    applied: {applied or 0}x  successful: {success_pct}%  since: {(created or \"\")[:10]}')
    if pattern:
        preview = pattern[:80] + ('...' if len(pattern) > 80 else '')
        print(f'    {preview}')
"

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 11d ago First seen · 118 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 316addf2dabd

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instinct-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository senda-labs/DQIII8 (11 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 945 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 2026-08-30.