cognitive-load SKILL.md skillA
cognitive-load from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/cognitive-load@git:20260718.7c1285cPins git:20260718.7c1285c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/code-quality/cognitive-load/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260718.7c1285c, committed Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 2,584 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Cut the working memory a reader needs to follow code through locality, one idea per line, and naming that carries context. Use when a function makes reviewers scroll back, re-read, or hold several facts to grasp one line.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Cognitive load Working memory holds only a handful of items at once, so code that forces a reader to track more than that becomes slow to read and easy to misread. The job is to arrange code so each line is understandable from what is already on screen. Without a method you optimize for fewer lines or clever expressions, trading your convenience for every future reader's confusion. ## Method 1. **Keep a definition next to its use.** Declare a variable on the line before the loop that reads it, not forty lines up. When a name and its only use sit on one screen, the reader never scrolls back to recover what it meant. 2. **One idea per line.** Split `return transform(fetch(parse(input)))` into named steps: `parsed`, `record`, `result`. Each intermediate name is a label the reader rests on instead of unwinding four nested calls in their head. 3. **Replace bare literals with named context.** `if (status == 3)` becomes `if (status == Status.EXPIRED)`. The magic value forces a lookup elsewhere; the name carries the meaning inline where the reader already is. 4. **Cap nesting at two or three levels with early returns.** Guard clauses like …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/cognitive-load@sha256:f733312c24d0416cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260718.7c1285c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_efqlwubkf3nnss3g)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 18, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_efqlwubkf3nnss3g GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/cognitive-load GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f733312c24d0416c62f51ff82723ca682f8c637d70d956034451e6c47bab5dc9
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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