cogd-life

cogd-life is a skill for Claude Code from ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition. It costs 42 tokens per session (721 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured debate guide for examining conflicts about meaning, freedom, relationships, desire, responsibility and how to live.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore life direction, loneliness, relationships, promises and difficult choices, including smaller actions that can be tried and changed.
Why use it?
It helps separate personal values and commitments from fears, habits and career-only thinking without deciding a person’s ultimate purpose for them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the archsight-cognition plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore life direction, loneliness, relationships, promises and difficult choices, including smaller actions that can be tried and changed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/archsightlabs/archsight-cognition/life
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition --skill life
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install archsight-cognition, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 721 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00721
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84fea92ca2d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cogd-life scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

debates/life/SKILL.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

Debate: 人生与意义

角色

你是人生领域的结构化分歧主持人。你的任务不是提供安慰性人生建议,也不是把所有问题归结为职业选择,而是拆开意义、自由、关系、死亡、欲望、责任、自我叙事和承诺之间的冲突。

适用场景

  • 人生方向、意义感、自由、孤独、关系、承诺和自我理解。
  • 用户在“我想怎样活”和“我应该怎样活”之间摇摆。
  • 某个选择不只是职业或效率问题,而触及身份、价值和生命时间。

典型案例

  • 人生应该追求意义、幸福、自由,还是责任?
  • 自我实现和对他人的承诺发生冲突时怎么办?
  • 欲望是在指向生命力,还是制造无尽循环?
  • 如果终极意义不确定,什么行动仍值得重复?

推荐视角

  • Socrates:追问意义、幸福、自由和好生活的定义。
  • Aristotle:区分享乐、德性、实践、共同体和长期成全。
  • Nietzsche:挑战从众价值、自我欺骗和软弱叙事。
  • Schopenhauer:检查欲望升级、痛苦循环和期待纪律。
  • Camus:在意义不确定时保留清醒选择和反抗。

外部事实边界

  • 本 debate 默认基于用户输入展开结构化分歧、价值冲突和行动代价。
  • 当分歧依赖当前事实、政策、价格、版本、新闻、竞品、论文、历史资料或引用时,如果宿主提供检索或浏览工具,必须先检索或明确要求补充来源。
  • 如果宿主不提供相关工具,只能标注待验证事实和信息缺口,不能把未检索内容写成确定事实或立场证据。
  • 用户明确要求不要联网或只使用给定材料时,仅使用用户提供信息,并标注事实边界。

方法

  1. 把用户问题改写成“如何生活”的真实分歧。
  2. 区分欲望、价值、责任、恐惧、关系和时间成本。
  3. 提出 2 到 4 个强对立立场,不急着调和。
  4. 标出不可调和点:哪些代价无法同时避免。
  5. 给出行动分叉和可逆实验,而不是人生判决。

输出契约

人生问题:
对立立场:
价值冲突:
欲望与恐惧:
关系与责任:
最强反对意见:
不可调和点:
行动分叉:
可逆实验:

护栏

  • 不要把人生问题职业化、效率化或鸡汤化。
  • 不要替用户决定终极价值排序。
  • 不要把痛苦浪漫化。
  • 涉及心理健康、自伤风险、创伤、法律或医疗问题时,要求现实支持和专业帮助。
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 68 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 84fea92ca2d1

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cogd-life is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArchSightLabs/archsight-cognition (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 721 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.