instincts

instincts is a skill for Claude Code from SKB3002/agenthub. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,401 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A way to store project-specific preferences and conventions that are not obvious from the code. An agent can load these approved notes when working on that project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent needs to consult project conventions, team preferences, or other approved working rules.
Why use it?
It helps an agent follow local decisions without making them rediscover the same context. Notes are added only when the user explicitly approves them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the hub plugin — 53 skills, 37 commands, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when an agent needs to consult project conventions, team preferences, or other approved working rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skb3002/agenthub/instincts
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 SKB3002/agenthub --skill instincts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SKB3002/agenthub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hub, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 37 commands, 20 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for instincts

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skb3002/agenthub/instincts/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/skb3002/agenthub/instincts)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for instincts

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skb3002/agenthub/instincts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skb3002/agenthub/instincts.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,401 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 unknown 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 $0.00047 $0.01401
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00560
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00140

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 359ac7bf5bb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instincts 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 1mo 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.

plugins/hub/skills/instincts/SKILL.md · 116 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 359ac7bf5bb6

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instincts is a skill published in the GitHub repository SKB3002/agenthub (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,401 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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