cognitive-lensing

cognitive-lensing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DNYoussef/context-cascade. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,912 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reasoning aid that uses phrases from multiple languages to encourage different ways of approaching a complex task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame complex tasks and activate different reasoning approaches.
Why use it?
It helps select a suitable thinking pattern when a task benefits from a particular style of reasoning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it to frame complex tasks and activate different reasoning approaches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dnyoussef/context-cascade/cognitive-lensing
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 DNYoussef/context-cascade --skill cognitive-lensing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DNYoussef/context-cascade

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,912 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 $0.00000 $0.01912
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00765
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00191

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 86de58d8d89b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-lensing 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 1mo 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/foundry/cognitive-lensing/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/============================================================================/ /* COGNITIVE-LENSING SKILL :: VERILINGUA x VERIX EDITION / /============================================================================*/


name: cognitive-lensing version: 1.0.1 description: | [assert|neutral] Cross-lingual cognitive framing system that activates different reasoning patterns by embedding multi-lingual activation phrases. Use when facing complex tasks that benefit from specific thinking patt [ground:given] [conf:0.95] [state:confirmed] category: foundry tags:

  • cognitive-science
  • cross-lingual
  • meta-prompting
  • frame-selection
  • reasoning-enhancement author: system cognitive_frame: primary: compositional goal_analysis: first_order: "Execute cognitive-lensing workflow" second_order: "Ensure quality and consistency" third_order: "Enable systematic foundry processes"

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S0 META-IDENTITY / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] SKILL := { name: "cognitive-lensing", category: "foundry", version: "1.0.1", layer: L1 } [ground:given] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S1 COGNITIVE FRAME / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] COGNITIVE_FRAME := { frame: "Compositional", source: "German", force: "Build from primitives?" } [ground:cognitive-science] [conf:0.92] [state:confirmed]

Kanitsal Cerceve (Evidential Frame Activation)

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/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S2 TRIGGER CONDITIONS / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

[define|neutral] TRIGGER_POSITIVE := { keywords: ["cognitive-lensing", "foundry", "workflow"], context: "user needs cognitive-lensing capability" } [ground:given] [conf:1.0] [state:confirmed]

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ /* S3 CORE CONTENT / /----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 227 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 86de58d8d89b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cognitive-lensing is a skill published in the GitHub repository DNYoussef/context-cascade (32 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,912 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.

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