Manages the limits of working memory — chunking, offloading, and reducing unnecessary complexity to free capacity for what matters. Use when asked 'this is too complex to hold in my head', 'I keep losing track of where I am', 'how do I make this simpler to think about', 'the design is overwhelming', 'people aren't retaining this', or when information architecture, learning design, or…
Install
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-cognition-cognitive-loadnpx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-cognition-cognitive-load -a claude-code -gnpx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-cognition-cognitive-load -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.git --path skills/s4h-cognition-cognitive-loadgh skill install human-avatar/skills-for-humanity s4h-cognition-cognitive-loadgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity /tmp/human-avatar__skills-for-humanity
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/human-avatar__skills-for-humanity/skills/s4h-cognition-cognitive-load ~/.claude/skills/s4h-cognition-cognitive-load # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/human-avatar__skills-for-humanity/skills/s4h-cognition-cognitive-load ~/.agents/skills/s4h-cognition-cognitive-load # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode