Agent skill

Meta Cognitive Reasoning

by aiskillstore in aiskillstore/marketplace

Meta-cognitive reasoning specialist for evidence-based analysis, hypothesis testing, and cognitive failure prevention.

No licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Meta Cognitive Reasoning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill meta-cognitive-reasoning -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install aiskillstore/marketplace meta-cognitive-reasoning --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/89jobrien/meta-cognitive-reasoning .claude/skills/meta-cognitive-reasoning && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
meta-cognitive-reasoning
GitHub stars
433
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~3.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,125 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1,044
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Meta-cognitive reasoning specialist for evidence-based analysis, hypothesis testing, and cognitive failure prevention.

  • Works in 8 steps: Evidence-Based Reasoning Protocol → Multiple Working Hypotheses → Temporal Knowledge Currency → …
  • Conducting reviews
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use This Skill, What This Skill Does, Core Principles and How to Use, plus 3 more sections
  • Reaches pypi.org

What it does

Meta Cognitive Reasoning is an agent skill from aiskillstore/marketplace. Meta-cognitive reasoning specialist for evidence-based analysis, hypothesis testing, and cognitive failure prevention. Use when conducting reviews, making assessments, debugging complex issues, or any task requiring rigorous analytical reasoning. Prevents premature conclusions, assumption-based errors, and pattern matching without verification.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/detailed-frameworks.md`, `references/domain-examples.md` and `skill-report.json`).

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: Security-audited skills for Claude, Codex & Claude Code. One-click install, quality verified.

When your agent uses it

  • Conducting reviews
  • Making assessments
  • Debugging complex issues
  • Any task requiring rigorous analytical reasoning

Example prompts

  • “/meta-cognitive-reasoning”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Evidence-Based Reasoning Protocol
  2. Multiple Working Hypotheses
  3. Temporal Knowledge Currency
  4. Self-Correction Protocol
  5. Cognitive Resource Allocation
  6. Systematic Completion Discipline
  7. Individual Analysis Over Batch Processing
  8. Semantic vs Literal Analysis

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 44923f3. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • pypi.org

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Meta Cognitive Reasoning loads about 3.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,125 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~8.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,125 words (~3,406 tokens).

“This skill provides disciplined reasoning frameworks for avoiding cognitive failures in analysis, reviews, and decision-making. It enforces evidence-based conclusions, multiple hypothesis generation, and systematic verification.”

— opening of SKILL.md by aiskillstore
name
meta-cognitive-reasoning
tags
reasoning, analysis, review, debugging, assessment, decision-making, cognitive failure prevention, meta-cognitive reasoning, evidence-based reasoning
author
Joseph OBrien
status
unpublished
updated
2025-12-23
version
1.0.1
tag
skill
type
skill

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/89jobrien/meta-cognitive-reasoning of aiskillstore/marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/detailed-frameworks.md
  • references/domain-examples.md
  • skill-report.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 44923f3

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in aiskillstore/marketplace, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Meta Cognitive Reasoning

What does Meta Cognitive Reasoning do?

Meta-cognitive reasoning specialist for evidence-based analysis, hypothesis testing, and cognitive failure prevention. Meta Cognitive Reasoning is an agent skill from aiskillstore/marketplace. Meta-cognitive reasoning specialist for evidence-based analysis, hypothesis testing, and cognitive failure prevention.

When should I use Meta Cognitive Reasoning?

Meta Cognitive Reasoning fits situations like: conducting reviews; making assessments; debugging complex issues; any task requiring rigorous analytical reasoning.

How do I install Meta Cognitive Reasoning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill meta-cognitive-reasoning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/89jobrien/meta-cognitive-reasoning in aiskillstore/marketplace) into .claude/skills/meta-cognitive-reasoning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Meta Cognitive Reasoning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill meta-cognitive-reasoning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/89jobrien/meta-cognitive-reasoning in aiskillstore/marketplace) into .agents/skills/meta-cognitive-reasoning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Meta Cognitive Reasoning in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill meta-cognitive-reasoning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/meta-cognitive-reasoning, .gemini/skills/meta-cognitive-reasoning, .github/skills/meta-cognitive-reasoning and .opencode/skills/meta-cognitive-reasoning in your project.

What does Meta Cognitive Reasoning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Meta Cognitive Reasoning is instructions for the agent only.

Does Meta Cognitive Reasoning access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: pypi.org; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Meta Cognitive Reasoning safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Meta Cognitive Reasoning use?

No licence was found for Meta Cognitive Reasoning or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Meta Cognitive Reasoning use?

About 3.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 14k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.8k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Meta Cognitive Reasoning?

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Who maintains Meta Cognitive Reasoning?

aiskillstore (a GitHub organization) maintains it in aiskillstore/marketplace, which has 433 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,044 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: aiskillstore/marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.