cognitive-continuity

cognitive-continuity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A resumable record of task state that can be continued after an interruption.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for continuing coding-agent tasks after a pause, failure, or other interruption.
Why use it?
It helps preserve where work stopped so you do not have to reconstruct the task from memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the nova-the-optimal-ai plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for continuing coding-agent tasks after a pause, failure, or other interruption.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind/cognitive-continuity
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 Stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind --skill cognitive-continuity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nova-the-optimal-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,712 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 $0.00020 $0.01712
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00856
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00171

Measured 4d ago against content hash f1af393fb1ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-continuity 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/compile_context_v2.py, scripts/compile_context.py, scripts/continuity_store_v2.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/nova-the-optimal-ai/skills/cognitive-continuity/SKILL.md · 135 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

Files

What ships with it

60 files 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. 4d ago Changed · -21 tokens per session f1af393fb1ba
  2. 5d ago Changed · +3 lines · +24 tokens per session f5f18ee22df8
  3. 10d ago First seen · 132 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A a4ac2cf1d6b9

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cognitive-continuity is a skill published in the GitHub repository Stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind (25 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,712 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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