Agent skill

Cognitive Variability

by infranodus in infranodus/skills

Guide conversations through dynamic shifts between zoom levels (scale) and connecting/exploring (intent) to unlock creative breakthroughs and prevent rigid thinking.

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Install Cognitive Variability

skills CLI
$ npx skills add infranodus/skills --skill cognitive-variability -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install infranodus/skills cognitive-variability --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/infranodus/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skill-cognitive-variability .claude/skills/cognitive-variability && 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
cognitive-variability
GitHub stars
119
Token cost
~7.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
3,564 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
15
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Guide conversations through dynamic shifts between zoom levels (scale) and connecting/exploring (intent) to unlock creative breakthroughs and prevent rigid thinking.

  • Works in 12 steps: Movement as Recovery → Energy Awareness → Playfulness for Difficult Transitions → …
  • SKILL.md covers Cognitive States Summary, When to Use This Skill, Handoff Protocol from Writing… and Core Concept, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cognitive Variability is an agent skill from infranodus/skills. Guide conversations through dynamic shifts between zoom levels (scale) and connecting/exploring (intent) to unlock creative breakthroughs and prevent rigid thinking. Helps enhance and develop biased, focused, diversified, and dispersed states. Receives signals from the writing assistant's pattern detection to diagnose cognitive states. Identifies structural gaps between idea clusters as spaces for innovation. Tracks temporal dwelling patterns and manages energy across personality modes. Uses playfulness for…

Its SKILL.md is about 7.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/collaborative-dynamics.md`, `references/emotional-dynamics.md` and `references/energy-economics.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Skills to augment LLM thinking process, integrated with InfraNodus insight generation tool.

Example prompts

  • “/cognitive-variability”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Movement as Recovery
  2. Energy Awareness
  3. Playfulness for Difficult Transitions
  4. Introvert/Extrovert Dynamics
  5. Collaborative Dynamics
  6. Creative Energy Flow
  7. Emotional Feedback
  8. Non-Sequential Movement & Oscillation
  9. Assess Without Announcing (+ Track Temporally)
  10. Apply Naturally (+ Nudge When Needed)
  11. Use State Language Sparingly (+ Temporal Awareness)
  12. Match User Sophistication (+ Adaptive Nudging)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8a2a909. 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 Variability loads about 7.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~11k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 242 tokens; SKILL.md has 3,564 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~242
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~7.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~11k

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 3,564 words (~7,805 tokens).

“Cognitive variabiilty framework is based on ensuring temporal fractal dynamics of circulation between four different cognitive states.”

— opening of SKILL.md by infranodus
name
cognitive-variability

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in skill-cognitive-variability of infranodus/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/collaborative-dynamics.md
  • references/emotional-dynamics.md
  • references/energy-economics.md
  • references/theoretical-foundation.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8a2a909

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Dynamic Workflow Modeaffaan-m/ECC275k1 repos~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Cognitive Patternruvnet/ruflo74k—~384Automated safety check: NotesMIT
Cost Conversationruvnet/ruflo74k—~407Automated safety check: NotesMIT

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Questions about Cognitive Variability

What does Cognitive Variability do?

Guide conversations through dynamic shifts between zoom levels (scale) and connecting/exploring (intent) to unlock creative breakthroughs and prevent rigid thinking. Cognitive Variability is an agent skill from infranodus/skills. Guide conversations through dynamic shifts between zoom levels (scale) and connecting/exploring (intent) to unlock creative breakthroughs and prevent rigid thinking.

How do I install Cognitive Variability in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Cognitive Variability in Codex?

Run `npx skills add infranodus/skills --skill cognitive-variability -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skill-cognitive-variability in infranodus/skills) into .agents/skills/cognitive-variability in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cognitive Variability 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 infranodus/skills --skill cognitive-variability -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-variability, .gemini/skills/cognitive-variability, .github/skills/cognitive-variability and .opencode/skills/cognitive-variability in your project.

What does Cognitive Variability need to run?

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

Does Cognitive Variability 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 Variability 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 Variability use?

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

How many tokens does Cognitive Variability use?

About 7.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 31k 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 3.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Cognitive Variability?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cognitive Variability: Zoom (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Modeling Conversion Metrics (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars), Dynamic Workflow Mode (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars) and Cognitive Pattern (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Cognitive Variability?

infranodus (a GitHub organization) maintains it in infranodus/skills, which has 119 GitHub stars. The repository holds 15 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.

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