intrinsic skillA
intrinsic is agent-read markdown (skill) from pjt222/agent-almanac: 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 tas.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/intrinsic@v1.0mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/intrinsic@sha256:b81f91537cda0a6fPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mbkmufx44k7sj7yq)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 · 33 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · 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
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