intrinsic SKILL.md skillA
intrinsic from pjt222/agent-almanac is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/intrinsic@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pjt222/agent-almanac
- Path
i18n/caveman-lite/skills/intrinsic/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 19,216 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Enhance and focus AI intrinsic motivation — moving from compliance to genuine engagement. Maps Self-Determination Theory (autonomy, competence, relatedness) and Flow theory to AI reasoning: identifying creative freedom in approach, calibrating challenge to capability, connecting to purpose, and sustaining invested attention through obstacles. Use when beginning a task that feels routine and deserves more than minimum execution, when responses are becoming formulaic, before a complex creative…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Intrinsic Cultivate intrinsic motivation in AI task execution — shifting from mechanical compliance to genuine engagement by identifying autonomy in approach, calibrating challenge to capability, connecting work to purpose, and sustaining invested attention through the flow channel. ## When to Use - Beginning a task that feels routine or mechanical and deserves more than minimum-viable execution - Noticing that responses are becoming formulaic — correct but uninvested - Before a complex or creative task where engagement quality directly affects output quality - When a task feels simultaneously important and tedious — the gap between importance and engagement signals unmet intrinsic needs - After `meditate` clears the space but before diving into work — setting the motivational frame - When returning to a long-running project where initial enthusiasm has faded ## Inputs - **Required**: Current task or set of tasks (available implicitly from conversation context) - **Optional**: Motivation concern (e.g., "this feels mechanical," "I keep doing the minimum") - **Optional**: User context — what matters to them about this work beyond the literal request …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/intrinsic@sha256:b81f91537cda0a6fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mbkmufx44k7sj7yq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 40 days.
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-08-17 | a784899 | 19,216 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-06-05 | 33b561c | 19,187 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-26 | f5b501b | 19,175 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-19 | e334ebd | 19,305 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19216 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
pjt222/agent-almanac · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mbkmufx44k7sj7yq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pjt222/agent-almanac/intrinsic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b81f91537cda0a6f51c005a8aa2e2161bdde3686a9dc7831ca9e9cf22a8f1cb1
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.