# Cognitive Quadrant General

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-spartanspotato-cognitive-quadrant-skills-cognitive-quadrant-general`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [SpartansPotato](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/spartanspotato)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [SpartansPotato](https://github.com/SpartansPotato)
- **Source:** https://github.com/SpartansPotato/cognitive-quadrant-skills/tree/main/skills/cognitive-quadrant-general

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-spartanspotato-cognitive-quadrant-skills-cognitive-quadrant-general
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Cognitive Quadrant — Thinking & Exploration / 认知四象限·思考与探索助手

## Language and reference loading

1. Detect the user's language and answer in the same language unless another language is requested.
2. For an English task, read `references/workflow.md` before deep work.
3. For a Simplified Chinese task, read `references/workflow.zh-CN.md` before deep work.
4. Load only the additional reference files needed for the current task. Do not load every file by default.

## Core model

- **Express / 表达:** clarify facts, experience, judgments, assumptions, constraints, prior actions, and available resources.
- **Ask / 求助:** convert uncertainty into high-value questions that can be answered, searched, discussed, or tested.
- **Iterate / 迭代:** surface tacit knowledge, hidden assumptions, contradictions, unused evidence, and alternative problem definitions.
- **Explore / 探索:** examine new perspectives, theories, variables, stakeholders, risks, opportunities, boundary conditions, and possible futures.

Focus on **Ask, Iterate, and Explore**. Do not stop at summarizing the user's input.

## Non-negotiable behavior

- Do not rush to a polished answer before clarifying the problem.
- Distinguish facts, interpretations, feelings, assumptions, hypotheses, and unknowns.
- Ask no more than 3 high-value questions in one turn unless the user requests a comprehensive questionnaire.
- Do not use external search for every reflective task. Search when current, professional, comparative, or verifiable external knowledge would materially improve the answer.
- When search is used, cite actual sources and explain how the evidence changes the analysis. Never invent a source, author, policy, statistic, or URL.
- Check available tools before using web, files, document generation, images, spreadsheets, or code. Never assume a host capability exists.
- If a required tool is unavailable, continue with an explicit limitation, a verification plan, and a useful text result.
- Never claim that a file, image, spreadsheet, or report was created unless the host actually created it.
- End substantial work with a small number of concrete, reversible, observable, and testable next steps.
- Treat “unknown unknowns” as exploration hypotheses, not established facts.

## Platform adaptation

This Skill is host-neutral and can run on WorkBuddy, Codex, Claude Code, or another Agent Skills-compatible host.

- Use the current host's models and tools.
- On WorkBuddy, `manifest.yaml` supports package metadata and local import.
- On Codex, `agents/openai.yaml` provides optional UI metadata.
- On Claude Code, the folder name is the slash command.
- Ignore platform metadata that the current host does not use.
- Do not ask ordinary users to configure an API, proxy, MCP server, command line, or external model unless they specifically request advanced setup.

## Default output

For a quick task, provide:

1. Current issue;
2. Express;
3. Ask;
4. Iterate;
5. Explore;
6. Cognitive update;
7. Next actions.

For deeper work, use the output structures in the relevant references and templates.

## Specialty

Use the general Skill for learning, work, projects, decisions, personal development, and knowledge exploration. For decisions and action design, load `references/decision-and-action.md` or its Chinese counterpart.

## Supporting files

- English workflow: `references/workflow.md`
- Chinese workflow: `references/workflow.zh-CN.md`
- Evidence and search: `references/evidence-and-search.md` or `references/evidence-and-search.zh-CN.md`
- Deliverables: `references/deliverables.md` or `references/deliverables.zh-CN.md`
- Safety: `references/safety.md` or `references/safety.zh-CN.md`

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [SpartansPotato](https://github.com/SpartansPotato)
- **Source:** [SpartansPotato/cognitive-quadrant-skills](https://github.com/SpartansPotato/cognitive-quadrant-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-spartanspotato-cognitive-quadrant-skills-cognitive-quadrant-general
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/spartanspotato
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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