Cognition

Cognition is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by human-avatar in skills-for-humanity.

220 stars23 forkson human-avatar/skills-for-humanityAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/07/15

claude-codeclaude-code-plugincognitive-frameworkscreativitydecision-makingethicsmental-modelsproblem-solvingreasoningsystems-thinking

Install in seconds

Install Cognition

Copy Cognition into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/tree/main/skills/s4h-cognition ~/.claude/skills/s4h-cognition

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/s4h-cognition/SKILL.md in human-avatar/skills-for-humanity
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/s4h-cognition
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Cognition does

Cognition routes a situation to the right cognitive tool for attention, mental models, metacognition, or cognitive load. Use it when you want applied cognitive science but are not sure which specific tool fits.

Cognition is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Cognition comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, cognitive-frameworks, creativity and decision-making.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Cognition

Applies cognitive science to understand and improve how thinking itself works — attention, mental models, metacognition, and cognitive load. Diagnoses what kind of cognitive work is needed and routes to the right tool.

Which tool fits

You need to...	Tool
Understand what is capturing or depleting attention — and how to protect it	cognition-attention
Surface and audit the mental models driving perception and decisions	cognition-mental-models
Apply thinking-about-thinking to monitor comprehension and calibrate confidence	cognition-metacognition
Manage the limits of working memory — chunking, offloading, reducing complexity	cognition-cognitive-load

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Cognition

What else does human-avatar publish alongside Cognition?
Cognition is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Aesthetic, Aesthetic Coherence Check and Aesthetic Elegance Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cognition does, and is maintained by human-avatar in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the human-avatar/skills-for-humanity page.
How does Cognition compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Cognition ranks #2577 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cognition against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.