cognitive-reservoir SKILL.md skillA
cognitive-reservoir from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/cognitive-reservoir@git:20260811.05a775bPins git:20260811.05a775b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
- Path
ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cognitive-reservoir/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260811.05a775b, committed Aug 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 14, 2026
- Size
- 12,003 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
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.
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 Reservoir 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 GC, the advocatus diaboli. None checks the **state of the verifier** who approves that output. A green checkmark at 09:00 and a green checkmark at 21:00 are the same colour in the merge log and carry the same authority, but they were not necessarily produced by the same quality of verification. This skill is the shared grounding for two surfaces: - the **`reservoir-check.sh` Stop hook** — fires automatically at session end and emits at most one advisory; - the **`reservoir-warden` agent** — gives a fuller on-demand read via `/reservoir`. Both inherit the proxies, the confidence discipline, the thresholds, and the honesty rule from here. Neither re-derives them. > The warden watches; it never chooses. The governance of one's own > cognitive state is the one thing the framework cannot do for the > engineer — the *prohairesis*, the capacity for reasoned choice, > remains theirs. …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/cognitive-reservoir@sha256:633fff976790094aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260811.05a775b, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jun 14, 2026 and Aug 11, 2026, about one every 29 days.
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| git:20260811.05a775b latest | 2026-08-11 | 05a775b | 12,003 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260720.54bbbc0 | 2026-07-20 | 54bbbc0 | 11,004 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260614.73f02bc | 2026-06-14 | 73f02bc | 10,605 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 121 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
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