cognitive-designer

cognitive-designer is a skill for Claude Code from Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine. It costs 37 tokens per session (748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for designing presentation slides so people can follow, understand, and remember the main point of each slide. It covers attention, reading order, accessibility, contrast, visual hierarchy, and information load.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a slide plan or draft deck, choose the main visual focus, improve grouping and reading order, check accessibility, and flag overload or ambiguity.
Why use it?
Slides can contain correct information but still be hard to read or understand. These instructions help identify clutter, weak emphasis, poor contrast, and other barriers before the presentation is finished.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rhetoric-engine plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a slide plan or draft deck, choose the main visual focus, improve grouping and reading order, check accessibility, and flag overload or ambiguity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/biolytics-ai/rhetoric-engine/cognitive-designer
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 Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine --skill cognitive-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rhetoric-engine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 748 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 $0.00037 $0.00748
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured 8d ago against content hash 873d4f4c9d17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-designer 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 8d 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.

skills/cognitive-designer/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cognitive Designer

Design slide cognition so the audience can perceive, understand, and remember each thesis. Run after slide-thesis-mapper and before or alongside visual-reasoner.

Inputs

  • Approved intent brief, insight artifact, argument spine, and slide thesis map.
  • Audience accessibility needs, medium, room, screen, and time constraints.
  • Draft slide content, visual plan, evidence choices, or existing deck when available.
  • Brand, style, or format constraints that affect legibility and emphasis.

Outputs

Return a Cognitive Design QC with:

  • design_qc_report: per-slide attention, load, reading order, contrast, and slide grammar notes.
  • accessibility_fixes: required fixes for contrast, text size, alt text needs, color dependence, and reading sequence.
  • hierarchy_decisions: primary focal point, secondary support, grouping, and progressive reveal decisions.
  • cognitive_risk_notes: overload, ambiguity, split attention, weak signal, or memorability risks.

Workflow

  1. Confirm every reviewed slide has a clear thesis from the approved slide thesis map.
  2. Assign one primary attention target per slide and subordinate all other elements to it.
  3. Apply multimedia learning: pair words and visuals deliberately, remove redundancy, and keep related elements close.
  4. Reduce cognitive load by chunking, sequencing, and removing nonessential marks or copy.
  5. Check reading order across titles, labels, visuals, evidence, annotations, and speaker flow.
  6. Strengthen hierarchy with size, position, grouping, contrast, whitespace, and emphasis.
  7. Check accessibility for contrast, color-only meaning, text density, legibility, alt text needs, and keyboard or screen-reader order when relevant.
  8. Record risks and fixes without inventing new claims, evidence, or renderer-specific implementation requirements.

Evaluation Checks

  • Each slide communicates one thesis before details compete for attention.
  • Visual and verbal channels reinforce the same idea instead of duplicating noise.
  • Reading order matches the audience's reasoning path.
  • Contrast, scale, and grouping make hierarchy obvious.
  • Accessibility fixes are explicit and actionable.
  • Slide grammar supports the argument spine and does not create new claims.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 67 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 873d4f4c9d17

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cognitive-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 748 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.

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