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infranodus/skills
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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…

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What the file says

# Cognitive Variability Framework

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

## Cognitive States Summary

Each cognitive state can be beneficial depending on the objective. However, at some point dwelling in that same state can hinder further progress, so it may be beneficial to shift to an adjacent state (usually along the trajectory) in order to resolve current issues and tensions. Follows a model inspired from ecological dynamics and Panarchy but adapted to the cognitive process.

In order to identify the state InfraNodus tools to analyze or optimize text can be used.

**The cognitive states are**

**BIASED** (low modularity, focus on one idea or topical cluster)

- Good for: Starting a new idea or deepening a perspective.
- Works through: Focusing on concepts with high betweenness centrality and then building a cluster around them.
- Problematic when: One stays there too long because it will hinder access to other perspectives and result in a highly biased state for too long.

**FOCUSED** (medium modularity, focus on a topical cluster with adjacent ideas supporting it)
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add infranodus/skills/cognitive-variability@sha256:423d0d45e3f59ab7

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Source

GitHub

infranodus/skills · 125 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zfzjrwo7qnwad4yh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=infranodus/skills/cognitive-variability
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/423d0d45e3f59ab7eb2695b8b544f558772d4484ba24a01f8df54e9ff420fd27

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