imprint

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Imprint, verb. To stamp a mark that cannot be erased. noun. The mark itself, permanent, portable, unmistakably yours.

In ethology, imprinting is the moment a young animal learns, once and forever, who it belongs to. In printing, an imprint is the publisher's signature pressed into every page. In both meanings, something is marked at its core, and that mark travels with it.

This project is that mark, for human-AI work.

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What this is

Imprint is a single plugin that captures how you work and carries it across every AI agent you use.

On first run, the skill has a short conversation with you. Not about your project, about you. How you debug, how you plan, how you write commits, what you've shipped, what went wrong, what you prefer.

That conversation becomes a portable profile, a working imprint, stored alongside your code. Under 500 tokens. Structured. Readable. Yours.

Every session after that, the skill applies your imprint automatically: your code style, your review standards, your planning rhythm, your design taste, your git habits. Portable across any SKILL.md-compatible agent.

Switch models. Switch platforms. Switch teams. Your imprint comes with you.

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Install

Claude Code (recommended)

/install imprint

View on Claude Code Marketplace

Any SKILL.md-compatible agent (universal)

Copy skills/imprint/SKILL.md into your agent's skills directory. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Trae, Cline, Roo, and any agent that reads SKILL.md files.

git clone https://github.com/ilang-ai/Imprint.git
cp Imprint/skills/imprint/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/imprint/SKILL.md

Replace ~/.claude/skills/ with your agent's skills path.

Hermes Agent

hermes skills install ilang-ai/Imprint

Cursor

Browse and install from Cursor Directory.

VS Code / VS Code forks

Search "Imprint" in the Extensions panel, or:

• VS Code Marketplace
• Open VSX
• Open VSX

The VS Code extension auto-installs SKILL.md to 14 agent directories on your machine.

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What It Overlaps With

Imprint covers ground that these skills address individually. Not a drop-in replacement for all of them, but a single file that handles the common cases.