cognitive-scaffolding

cognitive-scaffolding is a skill for Claude Code from itallstartedwithaidea/claude-googleadsagent. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for organising an AI agent’s working context using ideas from cognitive science, such as grouping information and managing what appears first or most recently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when structuring prompts, notes, or task context for an agent handling complex work.
Why use it?
It helps keep important information visible and makes large or distracting instructions easier to work with.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the googleadsagent plugin — 77 skills, 7 commands, 7 agents, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it when structuring prompts, notes, or task context for an agent handling complex work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itallstartedwithaidea/claude-googleadsagent/cognitive-scaffolding
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 itallstartedwithaidea/claude-googleadsagent --skill cognitive-scaffolding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itallstartedwithaidea/claude-googleadsagent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install googleadsagent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 77 skills, 7 commands, 7 agents, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,335 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 unknown 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 $0.00038 $0.02335
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01167
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00233

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4d9a6c96c33a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-scaffolding 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.

skills/cognitive-scaffolding/SKILL.md · 220 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 220 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 4d9a6c96c33a

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cognitive-scaffolding is a skill published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/claude-googleadsagent (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,335 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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