cognitive

Cognitive systems skill for reasoning, memory, and agent behavior; use when designing agent workflows or mental-model tooling.

SKILL.md

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Skill: Cognitive

Domain: agent | Depth: axiom

Capabilities

  • Reasoning chains: chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, self-consistency
  • Working memory management: context window, sliding window, summarization
  • Episodic memory: store and retrieve past experiences
  • Semantic memory: vector-based concept retrieval (ChromaDB)
  • Attention modeling: relevance scoring, salience weighting
  • Meta-cognition: confidence estimation, uncertainty quantification
  • Belief updating: Bayesian reasoning primitives
  • Pattern recognition across dimensional records (Akashic field)

Architecture

  • Working memory: last N turns + auto-summarize on overflow
  • Episodic memory: SQLite — timestamped facts and sessions
  • Semantic memory: ChromaDB — vector similarity retrieval
  • Akashic field: dimensional records — domain/depth/resonance retrieval

Libraries

Library Purpose
torch Attention, embeddings
numpy Probability and belief arrays
scipy Statistical reasoning
chromadb Semantic memory backend

Module

agents/skills/cognitive.py

Key Functions

  • chain_of_thought(problem, steps) — structured reasoning scaffold
  • confidence(logits) — softmax confidence from raw scores
  • bayesian_update(prior, likelihood, evidence) — posterior belief
  • attention_score(query, keys) — dot-product attention weights
  • summarize_context(turns, max_tokens) — compress working memory
  • retrieve_relevant(concept, memory, n) — semantic memory retrieval