Verify
asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks
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A skill your agent uses when watching the human verifier rather than the output — defines the observable proxies, the observed/inferred/asked confidence discipline, the default thresholds, the one…
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Install Cognitive Reservoir
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cognitive-reservoir --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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/cognitive-reservoir .claude/skills/cognitive-reservoir && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "cognitive-reservoir" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir into .claude/skills/cognitive-reservoir/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cognitive-reservoir", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoirType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cognitive-reservoir --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir .agents/skills/cognitive-reservoir && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "cognitive-reservoir" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir into .agents/skills/cognitive-reservoir/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cognitive-reservoir", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cognitive-reservoir --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir .cursor/skills/cognitive-reservoir && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "cognitive-reservoir" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir into .cursor/skills/cognitive-reservoir/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cognitive-reservoir", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git --path ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cognitive-reservoir --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir .gemini/skills/cognitive-reservoir && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cognitive-reservoir" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir into .gemini/skills/cognitive-reservoir/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cognitive-reservoir", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cognitive-reservoirInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir .github/skills/cognitive-reservoir && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cognitive-reservoir" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir into .github/skills/cognitive-reservoir/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cognitive-reservoir", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cognitive-reservoir --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir .opencode/skills/cognitive-reservoir && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cognitive-reservoir" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir into .opencode/skills/cognitive-reservoir/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cognitive-reservoir", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
cognitive-reservoir- GitHub stars
- 114
- Token cost
- ~3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,525 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 42
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when watching the human verifier rather than the output — defines the observable proxies, the observed/inferred/asked confidence discipline, the default thresholds, the one…
- Works in 4 steps: Continuous session span (minutes) —… → Decision volume — count of approval-like… → Context switches — distinct work streams… → …
- Watching the human verifier rather than the output — defines the observable proxies
- SKILL.md covers The instrument problem, Honesty rule (the hard…, Confidence-flag discipline and Observable proxies, plus 7 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Cognitive Reservoir is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when watching the human verifier rather than the output — defines the observable proxies, the observed/inferred/asked confidence discipline, the default thresholds, the one firm principle, six-level scaling, and the honesty rule that the reservoir-warden agent and the reservoir-check Stop hook both inherit
Its SKILL.md is about 3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
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
- Watching the human verifier rather than the output — defines the observable proxies
- The observed/inferred/asked confidence discipline
- The default thresholds
- The one firm principle
Example prompts
- “/cognitive-reservoir”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Continuous session span (minutes) — wall-clock from the first to
- Decision volume — count of approval-like events in the window
- Context switches — distinct work streams touched: branch
- Wall-clock hour — the current local hour, mapped to a circadian
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.
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
Cognitive Reservoir loads about 3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,525 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 1,525 words (~2,977 tokens).
“You are watching the one actor the harness has always trusted blindly: the human who says yes, this belongs in our system. Every other enforcement mechanism in the framework checks the output of a session — constraints, mutation tests, convention-drift…”
- name
- cognitive-reservoir
Files
Just SKILL.md in ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir of Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9d35995
Compare with similar skills
Cognitive Reservoir next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Reservoir this skillHabitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers | 114 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Verifyasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks | 69k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC0-1.0 | |
| Verify Thiscursor/plugins | 11k | 2 repos | ~693 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Cognitive Patternruvnet/ruflo | 74k | — | ~384 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Verify Releaseopenclaw/openclaw | 392k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Canary Watchaffaan-m/ECC | 277k | 1 repos | ~770 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Cognitive Reservoir
What does Cognitive Reservoir do?
A skill your agent uses when watching the human verifier rather than the output — defines the observable proxies, the observed/inferred/asked confidence discipline, the default thresholds, the one…. Cognitive Reservoir is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.
When should I use Cognitive Reservoir?
Cognitive Reservoir fits situations like: watching the human verifier rather than the output — defines the observable proxies; the observed/inferred/asked confidence discipline; the default thresholds; the one firm principle.
How do I install Cognitive Reservoir in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .claude/skills/cognitive-reservoir in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Cognitive Reservoir in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cognitive-reservoir -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .agents/skills/cognitive-reservoir in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Cognitive Reservoir 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 cognitive-reservoir -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cognitive-reservoir, .gemini/skills/cognitive-reservoir, .github/skills/cognitive-reservoir and .opencode/skills/cognitive-reservoir in your project.
What does Cognitive Reservoir need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cognitive Reservoir is instructions for the agent only.
Does Cognitive Reservoir 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 Cognitive Reservoir 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 Cognitive Reservoir use?
Cognitive Reservoir 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 Cognitive Reservoir use?
About 3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Cognitive Reservoir?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cognitive Reservoir: Verify (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Verify This (cursor/plugins, 11k stars), Cognitive Pattern (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars) and Verify Release (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Cognitive Reservoir?
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.