How do I install the Instinct Export skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add adelaidasofia/instinct-export in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Instinct Export safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Instinct Export?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Instinct Export free to use?

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Who published Instinct Export?

adelaidasofia (@adelaidasofia) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Instinct Export by adelaidasofia — Agent Skill

Name: Instinct Export
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: adelaidasofia

Instinct Export

Use when the user runs /instinct-export or wants to share, back up, hand off, or publish learned instincts to another machine, harness, or teammate — 'export my instincts', 'make an instinct pack', 'build a house/team instinct library', 'send my rules to a teammate', 'move instincts to my new laptop'. Part of the Instinct Engine. NOT for reading or reviewing memories (use /patterns) and NOT for importing a pack (use /instinct-import).

adelaidasofia Updated Sep 10, 2026

File contents

/instinct-export — portable instinct pack out

{SKILL_DIR} = this skill's own folder (locally: the directory this SKILL.md lives in; a served brain substitutes the real absolute path before you read this). Shared starter files live at the repo root two levels up: {SKILL_DIR}/../... If a path does not resolve, name the missing file and stop — never guess another location.

Turns your confidence-scored instincts into a portable, evidence-backed YAML pack. The unit of sharing is the instinct: id / trigger / confidence / domain / source_repo plus an action and evidence body.

ECC source pattern: portable instinct format with /instinct-import. Reimplemented clean per license-hygiene.

Run

# current project's instincts + globals, only confidence >= 0.70, to a file
python3 "{SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/instinct.py" export \
  --min-confidence 0.70 --out ~/instinct-pack.yaml

# everything regardless of project scope
python3 "{SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/instinct.py" export --all --out ~/all.yaml

Flags:

--project <id> — scope to one project id (default: the current working tree's).
--min-confidence <f> — drop instincts below this effective confidence.
--all — ignore project scope, export every instinct.
--out <file> — write to a file (omit to print to stdout).

confidence in the pack is the EFFECTIVE value (staleness decay already applied), so an importer inherits an honest, time-adjusted score.

Sharing note

A curated, org-specific export is a deliverable in its own right — a shared "house instinct library" a team can install into every member's harness. Scrub any project-private instinct before sharing a pack outside your org; --project global keeps a pack to cross-project rules only.

---name: instinct-exportdescription: Use when the user runs /instinct-export or wants to share, back up, hand off, or publish learned instincts to another machine, harness, or teammate — 'export my instincts', 'make an instinct pack', 'build a house/team instinct library', 'send my rules to a teammate', 'move instincts to my new laptop'. Part of the Instinct Engine. NOT for reading or reviewing memories (use /patterns) and NOT for importing a pack (use /instinct-import).---# /instinct-export — portable instinct pack out> **`{SKILL_DIR}`** = this skill's own folder (locally: the directory this SKILL.md lives in; a served brain substitutes the real absolute path before you read this). Shared starter files live at the repo root two levels up: `{SKILL_DIR}/../..`. If a path does not resolve, name the missing file and stop — never guess another location.Turns your confidence-scored instincts into a portable, evidence-backed YAMLpack. The unit of sharing is the instinct: `id / trigger / confidence / domain/ source_repo` plus an `action` and `evidence` body.ECC source pattern: portable instinct format with `/instinct-import`.Reimplemented clean per license-hygiene.## Run```bash# current project's instincts + globals, only confidence >= 0.70, to a filepython3 "{SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/instinct.py" export \ --min-confidence 0.70 --out ~/instinct-pack.yaml# everything regardless of project scopepython3 "{SKILL_DIR}/../../scripts/instinct.py" export --all --out ~/all.yaml```Flags:- `--project <id>` — scope to one project id (default: the current working tree's).- `--min-confidence <f>` — drop instincts below this effective confidence.- `--all` — ignore project scope, export every instinct.- `--out <file>` — write to a file (omit to print to stdout).`confidence` in the pack is the EFFECTIVE value (staleness decay alreadyapplied), so an importer inherits an honest, time-adjusted score.## Sharing noteA curated, org-specific export is a deliverable in its own right — a shared"house instinct library" a team can install into every member's harness. Scrubany project-private instinct before sharing a pack outside your org;`--project global` keeps a pack to cross-project rules only.

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