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.
npx agentmods add skills/tupe12334/instinct/5w2hnpx skills add tupe12334/instinct --skill 5w2hgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tupe12334/instinctWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tupe12334/instinct/5w2h)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tupe12334/instinct/5w2h"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tupe12334/instinct/5w2h.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00027 | $0.02232 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00014 | $0.01116 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00446 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00223 |
Grade A, and why
5w2h 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
5W2H
Overview
5W2H is a problem-definition and task-scoping framework that forces you to answer seven questions before work begins. It eliminates ambiguity by covering every dimension a task or problem can have: identity, purpose, location, timing, ownership, method, and cost.
┌──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Question │ What it pins down │
├──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ WHAT │ The subject — what exactly is being done/solved │
│ WHY │ The justification — why this matters right now │
│ WHERE │ The location/scope — where it happens or applies │
│ WHEN │ The timeline — start, end, milestones │
│ WHO │ The people — owner, doers, approvers, stakeholders │
│ HOW │ The method — steps, process, tools │
│ HOW MUCH │ The cost — budget, effort, resources consumed │
└──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Use it at the start of any project, task delegation, or problem investigation. If you cannot answer all seven, the task is not ready to execute.
The Seven Questions
WHAT
The precise subject. Vague "WHAT" answers produce vague work.
Ask: What is the deliverable? What is the problem? What is in scope and explicitly out of scope?
Bad: "Fix the checkout flow" Good: "Reduce checkout abandonment on the payment step — scoped to the web app only, not mobile"
WHY
The reason this work exists. The "WHY" justifies priority and guides decisions when the plan hits a fork.
Ask: Why is this a problem worth solving now? What outcome does success produce? What happens if we don't act?
Bad: "Leadership asked for it" Good: "Payment-step abandonment is 40% vs industry benchmark of 20%; each point costs $15k/month in lost revenue"
WHERE
The physical or logical location — geography, system, team, product area.
Ask: In which system, market, region, or team does this apply? What is the blast radius if something goes wrong?
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 170 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A e6b81c917236
5w2h is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,232 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 2026-08-31.
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