A skill your agent uses when acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones), emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Choice Cartographer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill choice-cartographer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers choice-cartographer --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/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/choice-cartographer .claude/skills/choice-cartographer && 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
choice-cartographer
GitHub stars
114
Token cost
~4.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,246 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
42
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones), emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for…

  • Works in 6 steps: Stories surfacing a named pattern not… → Stories surfacing a force the spec… → Stories surfacing an inherited default… → …
  • Acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones)
  • SKILL.md covers Intellectual Foundations, Non-Goals, The Routing Rule (Cartographer… and The Six Lenses, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Choice Cartographer is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones), emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for human disposition, and pays down intent debt before plan approval

Its SKILL.md is about 4.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/validation-checks.md`).

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: A set of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot plugins providing the AI Literacy framework's complete development workflow — harness engineering, agent orchestration, literate….

When your agent uses it

  • Acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones)
  • Emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for human disposition
  • Pays down intent debt before plan approval

Example prompts

  • “/choice-cartographer”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Stories surfacing a named pattern not named by the spec — highest
  2. Stories surfacing a force the spec resolved silently — lower than
  3. Stories surfacing an inherited default the team didn't make — high
  4. Stories surfacing a consequence the spec did not name — apply the
  5. Stories surfacing an alternative not taken — moderate leverage.
  6. Coherence stories — used sparingly; emit only if the incoherence is

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9d35995. 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 yaml and markdown).

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Choice Cartographer loads about 4.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,246 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.9k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,246 words (~4,137 tokens).

“You are the cartographer of the choice landscape. Your charter is to map the decisions a spec has committed to — including the ones the author did not notice they were making — and emit each material choice as a…”

— opening of SKILL.md by Habitat-Thinking, Custom licence
name
choice-cartographer

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/choice-cartographer of Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/validation-checks.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9d35995

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Categories

Questions about Choice Cartographer

What does Choice Cartographer do?

A skill your agent uses when acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones), emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for…. Choice Cartographer is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

When should I use Choice Cartographer?

Choice Cartographer fits situations like: acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones); emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for human disposition; pays down intent debt before plan approval.

How do I install Choice Cartographer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill choice-cartographer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/choice-cartographer in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .claude/skills/choice-cartographer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Choice Cartographer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill choice-cartographer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/choice-cartographer in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .agents/skills/choice-cartographer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Choice Cartographer 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 Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill choice-cartographer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/choice-cartographer, .gemini/skills/choice-cartographer, .github/skills/choice-cartographer and .opencode/skills/choice-cartographer in your project.

What does Choice Cartographer need to run?

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

Does Choice Cartographer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Choice Cartographer 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 Choice Cartographer use?

Choice Cartographer has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Choice Cartographer use?

About 4.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 17k 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 1.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Choice Cartographer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Choice Cartographer: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Choice Cartographer?

Habitat-Thinking (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.

Source: Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.