Agent skill

Instinct Review

Reviews/promotes/removes instincts from .claude/instincts/.md.

Apache-2.0Auto-check: notes

Install Instinct Review

skills CLI

$ npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install softspark/ai-toolkit instinct-review --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/app/skills/instinct-review .claude/skills/instinct-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "instinct-review" agent skill from https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/instinct-review into .claude/skills/instinct-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "instinct-review", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/instinct-review

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install softspark/ai-toolkit instinct-review --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/app/skills/instinct-review .agents/skills/instinct-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "instinct-review" agent skill from https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/instinct-review into .agents/skills/instinct-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "instinct-review", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install softspark/ai-toolkit instinct-review --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/app/skills/instinct-review .cursor/skills/instinct-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "instinct-review" agent skill from https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/instinct-review into .cursor/skills/instinct-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "instinct-review", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git --path app/skills/instinct-review

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install softspark/ai-toolkit instinct-review --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/app/skills/instinct-review .gemini/skills/instinct-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "instinct-review" agent skill from https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/instinct-review into .gemini/skills/instinct-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "instinct-review", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install softspark/ai-toolkit instinct-review

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/app/skills/instinct-review .github/skills/instinct-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "instinct-review" agent skill from https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/instinct-review into .github/skills/instinct-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "instinct-review", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install softspark/ai-toolkit instinct-review --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/app/skills/instinct-review .opencode/skills/instinct-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "instinct-review" agent skill from https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/instinct-review into .opencode/skills/instinct-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "instinct-review", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: instinct-review
GitHub stars: 179
Token cost: ~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 549 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 112
Repo updated: Oct 7, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

Reviews/promotes/removes instincts from .claude/instincts/.md.

Works in 4 steps: Authoring: Instinct files are written by… → Storage: .claude/instincts/.md, each… → Loading: At session start,… → …
SKILL.md covers What This Does, Commands, How Instincts Work and Instinct Format, plus 4 more sections
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Instinct Review is an agent skill from softspark/ai-toolkit. Reviews/promotes/removes instincts from .claude/instincts/.md. Triggers: instinct review, curate instincts, manage instincts, promote instinct.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Professional-grade AI coding toolkit: 94 skills, 44 agents, multi-platform (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini, Cline, Roo Code, Aider, Augment, Antigravity, Codex CLI… The licence is Apache-2.0.

Example prompts

“/instinct-review”

Requirements

Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, Glob

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Authoring: Instinct files are written by hand — one markdown file per pattern in .claude/instincts/. There is no automatic session-end…
Storage: .claude/instincts/.md, each carrying a confidence score (see format below).
Loading: At session start, session-start.sh loads every instinct file into context whenever any exist. No instincts on disk means nothing…
Curation: Use /instinct-review to list, promote, remove, or clear them.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d64db2b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
- Bash
- Read
- Write
- Glob
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Instinct Review loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 41 tokens; SKILL.md has 549 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~41
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
```
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Glob
```

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from softspark/ai-toolkit at commit d64db2b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© softspark). 549 words, ~1,170 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/instinct-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: instinct-review
description: Reviews/promotes/removes instincts from `.claude/instincts/*.md`. Triggers: instinct review, curate instincts, manage instincts, promote instinct.
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Glob
effort: low
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: [--list | --promote <id> | --remove <id> | --clear]

/instinct-review - Manage Learned Instincts

$ARGUMENTS

What This Does

Manages the instinct system: project-local behavioral notes that Claude loads at the start of a session.

Instincts are markdown files in .claude/instincts/, loaded at session start by session-start.sh whenever any exist (set AI_TOOLKIT_HOOK_QUIET=1 to suppress).

Commands

List all instincts

/instinct-review --list

Shows all instincts with confidence scores and source sessions.

Review and curate

/instinct-review

Interactive review: shows each instinct and asks promote/remove/keep.

Promote instinct (always apply)

/instinct-review --promote <filename>

Remove instinct

/instinct-review --remove <filename>

Clear all instincts

/instinct-review --clear

How Instincts Work

Authoring: Instinct files are written by hand — one markdown file per pattern in .claude/instincts/. There is no automatic session-end extractor today (see When NOT to Use).
Storage: .claude/instincts/<pattern-name>.md, each carrying a confidence score (see format below).
Loading: At session start, session-start.sh loads every instinct file into context whenever any exist. No instincts on disk means nothing is loaded; set AI_TOOLKIT_HOOK_QUIET=1 to suppress.
Curation: Use /instinct-review to list, promote, remove, or clear them.

Instinct Format

markdown

# Pattern: [pattern name]
Confidence: 0.85
Sessions: 3
Last seen: 2026-03-25

[Description of the pattern or preference]

Steps

Run ls .claude/instincts/ 2>/dev/null || echo "No instincts yet"
For each instinct file, read it and display confidence/summary
Based on $ARGUMENTS:
- --list: display table of all instincts
- --promote <id>: set confidence to 1.0, add "pinned" tag
- --remove <id>: delete the file
- --clear: delete all files in .claude/instincts/
- no args: interactive review of each instinct
Report summary of changes made

Rules

MUST list instincts with their source (session ID or date) so the user can judge provenance — anonymous instincts cannot be curated
MUST confirm before --clear — this action is irreversible without a backup
NEVER invent or edit instinct content — this skill curates existing files, it does not generate new ones
NEVER promote an instinct with confidence < 0.7 without explicit user approval — low-confidence patterns are often one-off noise
CRITICAL: the user owns the instinct list. Propose changes in interactive mode; apply silently only for explicit --promote, --remove, --clear flags.
MANDATORY: after any destructive operation, print the deleted or modified filenames so the user has an audit trail

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Gotchas

Instincts live in project-local .claude/instincts/, not in ~/.softspark/ai-toolkit/. Running this skill in a different project sees a different set — do not treat the list as global state.
Every instinct file loads into session context by default (whenever the directory is non-empty), so each one costs startup tokens. This is why curation matters — prune aggressively and keep the set small.
Promoted instincts (confidence = 1.0) load into every session's context, costing tokens. Too many pinned instincts bloat startup. Keep ≤10 pinned.
Instinct files are plain markdown following the format above. If you accumulate many, a --clear and re-author is often cleaner than migrating stale notes after a major toolkit bump.
The filename (<pattern-name>.md) is the identity used by --promote and --remove. Renaming files manually breaks those flags until the user reopens the review UI.

When NOT to Use

To auto-extract instincts from a session — not implemented. No Stop hook writes instinct files; author them by hand (or via a future extraction tool). This skill curates existing files, it does not generate them.
To search past session memory — use /mem-search
To edit global toolkit memory files — those live in ~/.claude/projects/*/memory/ and are managed by the auto-memory system, not this skill
To stop instincts from loading — delete the files with --clear, or set AI_TOOLKIT_HOOK_QUIET=1 to suppress all session-start output. There is no extraction process to disable.

Files

Just SKILL.md in app/skills/instinct-review of softspark/ai-toolkit.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d64db2b

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Questions about Instinct Review

What does Instinct Review do?

Reviews/promotes/removes instincts from .claude/instincts/.md. Instinct Review is an agent skill from softspark/ai-toolkit.md.

How do I install Instinct Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (app/skills/instinct-review in softspark/ai-toolkit) into .claude/skills/instinct-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Instinct Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (app/skills/instinct-review in softspark/ai-toolkit) into .agents/skills/instinct-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Instinct Review in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill instinct-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/instinct-review, .gemini/skills/instinct-review, .github/skills/instinct-review and .opencode/skills/instinct-review in your project.

What does Instinct Review need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Instinct Review is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Read, Write, Glob.

Does Instinct Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Instinct Review safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Instinct Review use?

Instinct Review is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Instinct Review use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Instinct Review?

softspark (a GitHub user) maintains it in softspark/ai-toolkit, which has 179 GitHub stars. The repository holds 112 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: softspark/ai-toolkit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Instinct Review

Facts

At a glance

What it does

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

/instinct-review - Manage Learned Instincts

What This Does

Commands

List all instincts

Review and curate

Promote instinct (always apply)

Remove instinct

Clear all instincts

How Instincts Work

Instinct Format

Steps

Rules

Gotchas

When NOT to Use

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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Questions about Instinct Review