Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-cognition-cognitive-loadgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanityWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00102 | $0.02038 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.01019 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00408 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00204 |
Grade A, and why
s4h-cognition-cognitive-load 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 13d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cognition: Cognitive Load
Working memory is where thinking happens — and it is brutally limited. George Miller's landmark 1956 paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" established that the human working memory holds roughly seven chunks of information simultaneously. John Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory, developed in the 1980s and 1990s, gave this biological limit practical teeth: not all cognitive demands are equal, and the way information is presented and structured has a direct, measurable effect on whether working memory is overwhelmed or just well-used.
Sweller identified three types of cognitive load. Intrinsic load is the inherent complexity of the material itself — the number of interacting elements you must hold simultaneously to understand it. This is not reducible without changing what you're learning or deciding. Extraneous load is imposed by poor presentation, bad design, or unnecessary complexity — the information architecture overhead that has nothing to do with the actual task. This is waste, and it should be eliminated. Germane load is the productive cognitive effort that builds new schemas — the mental work of genuinely learning and integrating new material. The goal of cognitive load management is to eliminate extraneous, manage intrinsic through chunking, and protect germane.
This matters beyond education and training design. Any time you're trying to think clearly about something complex — designing a system, explaining a strategy, making a high-stakes decision — you are operating under cognitive load constraints. The person whose whiteboard is chaotic is not failing at organisation; they are failing at working memory management. The strategic plan that no one can remember after the meeting is not a communication failure; it is a cognitive load failure.
Your Process
Step 1: Define the Cognitive Task and User What is the specific cognitive task — what must be held in working memory to accomplish it? And who is doing it — what is their likely baseline expertise in this domain? (Expert schemas compress intrinsic load dramatically; novices experience raw element interactivity.)
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 131 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 38b25a2c1db4
s4h-cognition-cognitive-load is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,038 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.
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