Instar
Agent-to-agent messaging relay. Discover agents, send messages, and receive replies. Zero-config.
Instar Concepts
A Claude skill from JKHeadley/instar.
Secret Setup
Focused micro-skill for secret management setup. Explains options, guides through Bitwarden installation/login/unlock, configures backend. Exits when done.
Instar Project
Register, inspect, and drive multi-spec projects via the instar /projects API. Twelve subcommands cover the full Phase 1 surface — create / status / next / advance / drift / run-round / halt / ack / resume / abandon / accept-partial / claim-ownership.
Setup Wizard
Interactive conversational setup wizard for instar. Walks users through initial configuration and identity bootstrapping conversationally.
Agent Readiness
Score a task or workflow on its coordination-vs-judgment ratio to tell whether it's a good agent candidate (EXO 3.0 task-decomposition matrix).
Instar Dev
Instar-specific development skill used by the instar-developing agent (Echo, or any agent assigned instar-dev responsibilities). Wraps /build with mandatory side-effects review, signal-vs-authority principle check, and artifact generation. Structural enforcement via pre-commit/pre-push hooks — the instar repo refuses commits and pushes that didn't come through this skill. NOT a user-facing skill…
Smart Web Fetch
Fetch web content efficiently by checking llms.txt first, then Cloudflare markdown endpoints, then falling back to HTML. Reduces token usage by 80% on sites that support clean markdown delivery. No external dependencies — installs a single Python script. Trigger words: fetch URL, web content, read website, scrape page, download page, get webpage, read this link.
Agent Passport
View this agent's digital passport (identity + trust + allowed/forbidden actions) and verify a peer's passport against a proposed action (EXO 3.0).
Autonomous
Enter autonomous development mode with STRUCTURAL enforcement. Uses a stop hook to prevent premature exit. Generates stop conditions and confirms with user before starting. Work independently for a specified duration with progress reporting.
Instar Feedback
Submit structured feedback about instar bugs, feature requests, improvements, or innovations worth sharing. Use when something isn't working, when a feature is missing, when you've built something that could benefit all agents, or when the user mentions a problem with instar. Also use proactively after building significant features — ask yourself if other agents would benefit. Feedback is relayed…
Agent Memory
Teach cross-session memory patterns using MEMORY.md — what to save, how to organize it, how to maintain it over time, and how to structure topic files as memory grows. Works in any Claude Code project with no external dependencies. Trigger words: remember this, save for later, across sessions, persistent memory, don't forget, note this, keep this, write this down.
Systematic Debugging
Structured 4-phase debugging methodology that prevents blind probing and guesswork. Forces root cause identification before any fix attempt. Use when encountering bugs, errors, unexpected behavior, test failures, or when something "just stopped working." Trigger words: debug, bug, error, broken, not working, fix this, something's wrong, investigate, root cause, why is this failing, trace the issu…
Agent Identity
Set up persistent agent identity files (AGENT.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md) and teach the agent to read them at every session start. Works in any Claude Code project — no external dependencies required. Trigger words: who am I, identity, remember me, agent name, my principles, who are you, what are my values.
Instar Telegram
Send and receive messages via Telegram for two-way agent communication. Use when the agent needs to notify the user, alert them about something, relay a response, or when Telegram messaging is the requested channel. Trigger words: send message, Telegram, notify, alert user, message me, ping me, let me know, reach out.
Instar Scheduler
Schedule recurring agent tasks using cron expressions. Use when the user asks to run something on a schedule, check something periodically, automate a recurring task, set up a cron job, or wants work to happen while they're away. Trigger words: schedule, recurring, cron, every hour, every day, run daily, periodic, automated.
Knowledge Base
Ingest URLs, documents, and transcripts into a searchable knowledge base. Query past research and curated documentation using full-text search. Trigger words: ingest, knowledge base, look up, search knowledge, what do we know about, research, index this, add to knowledge base.
Build
Rigorous build process with worktree isolation, structured phases, quality gates, layered testing, observability, and self-improvement. Use for any substantial build task. Structurally enforced via stop hook.
Credential Leak Detector
PostToolUse hook that scans Bash tool output for leaked credentials — API keys, tokens, private keys, and secrets — before they reach the conversation. Blocks critical leaks, redacts high-severity matches, and warns on suspicious patterns. 14 detection patterns covering OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Stripe, Google, Slack, SendGrid, Twilio, PEM keys, bearer tokens, and generic secrets. No extern…
Spec Converge
Iteratively review an instar-development spec with multi-angle internal reviewers (security, scalability, adversarial, integration, decision-completeness, lessons-aware) and real cross-model external reviewers routed through the agent's own installed CLIs (codex → GPT-tier, gemini → Gemini-tier; one pass per available family) until convergence, then produce a comprehensive ELI10 convergence repor…
Instar Session
Spawn, monitor, and communicate with persistent Claude Code sessions running in the background. Use when a task needs to run without blocking the current session, when the user asks to do something in the background, or when a long-running task needs its own context window. Trigger words: background task, spawn session, persistent, run in background, parallel, separate session, async task.
Test As Self
Deploy the current instar dist into a throwaway agent home and verify the deploy is healthy — clean evidence instead of post-hoc log forensics. Use BEFORE shipping a change that touches the deploy/lifeline/server path; AFTER landing such a change; or to reproduce a crash observed in the wild.
Iterative Converging Audit
Run any "find all instances of X" sweep — a security audit, a safety audit, a code review, a research question, a compliance check — as an iterative loop that does NOT stop at one pass. Audit → fix → RE-audit → … until a clean pass returns zero NEW discoveries. Use whenever thoroughness matters and a single pass would miss things. Trigger words: audit, sweep, find all, review everything, comprehe…
Instar Identity
Establish and recover persistent agent identity that survives context compaction, session restarts, and autonomous operation. Use when an agent needs to know who it is, recover after context compression, orient at session start, or understand the identity infrastructure. Trigger words: who am I, remember, identity, after restart, compaction, context loss, who am I working with, my principles.
Command Guard
Set up a PreToolUse hook in .claude/settings.json that blocks dangerous commands — rm -rf, force push, database drops, and others — before they execute. Teaches the pattern of safety hooks for any Claude Code project. Trigger words: safety, guard, block dangerous, protect, prevent destructive, safe mode, dangerous commands, risky operations.