Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-cognition-metacognitiongit 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-cognition-metacognition)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-cognition-metacognition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-cognition-metacognition/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-cognition-metacognition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-cognition-metacognition.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00105 | $0.01923 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00769 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00385 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00192 |
Grade A, and why
s4h-cognition-metacognition 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.
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: Metacognition
Metacognition — the capacity to think about your own thinking — is what separates competent performance from expert adaptation. John Flavell, who established metacognition as a formal field of study at Stanford in the 1970s, identified three interlocking components: metacognitive knowledge (what you know about cognition in general and your own cognitive patterns in particular), metacognitive monitoring (tracking your comprehension and reasoning in real time), and metacognitive control (adjusting your approach when monitoring reveals a problem). All three are necessary. Most people engage in only the first.
The deepest metacognitive failure is the illusion of knowing — the conviction that you understand something you have only recognised. Familiarity and comprehension feel identical from the inside. You've read about second-order effects; you can nod when someone mentions them; but can you predict them in a novel case? The Dunning-Kruger phenomenon is partially a metacognitive failure: the incompetent are unable to recognise their own incompetence because competence is required to accurately monitor competence. Metacognitive skill is the corrective.
This skill applies Flavell's three-component framework as a practical diagnostic. It is not a general survey of your cognitive patterns — it is a targeted assessment of your thinking quality in a specific domain or decision, right now.
Your Process
Step 1: Define the Cognitive Task What is the specific domain, decision, or problem where thinking quality needs to be assessed? Be concrete: "understanding how our pricing affects customer retention" is more useful than "understanding the business." The metacognitive assessment will be more accurate and actionable if it is scoped to a specific task.
Framing check: Confirm the specific cognitive task before continuing. State what you've identified — the domain or decision and what metacognitive dimension seems most at stake — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:
- Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific domain and the metacognitive question at stake]. Is that right?"
- Header: "Framing"
- Options:
- Yes — proceed — framing is correct
- Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
- Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 206cb64ee5b9
s4h-cognition-metacognition is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (236 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,923 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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