cognitive-evolution-stages SKILL.md skillA
cognitive-evolution-stages from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/cognitive-evolution-stages@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
cognitive-evolution-stages/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 9,002 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
"Activate when: user says 'I understand it but can't apply it,' 'how do I stop just copying other people's work,' 'I can adapt frameworks but can't create new ones,' 'why does my innovation always look like a remix,' or when someone's output is sophisticated adaptation that cannot generate genuinely novel solutions.
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 Evolution Stages ## Overview Most learning models treat acquisition as the final destination. This framework describes it as the starting line of a five-stage process (5阶段11层级) ending in evolution — where Stage 5 output restarts the cycle at a higher level. The diagnostic power is identifying where someone is stuck and what specific transition would unblock them. The most consequential stall is Stage 2→3: from imitation to genuine understanding with deliberate trade-off thinking. Use AFTER [metacognition] to accurately self-locate. Use BEFORE [first-principles] — first-principles at Stage 2 produces confident error. Complements [nine-level-cognitive-tower]: this maps the PROCESS of development; that maps the STATE. ## When to Use - A developer, researcher, analyst, or creator produces sophisticated work but cannot generate genuinely novel solutions - A team's "innovation" combines existing approaches without comparative trade-off evaluation - A person has mastered Stage 2 and feels "something is missing" — cannot generate without a model to copy - A mentee executes instructions perfectly but cannot diagnose what is wrong with their own approach …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/cognitive-evolution-stages@sha256:054c8a960f2a53dbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 9,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 9,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 9,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 9,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 9,002 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
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