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Cognitive Core Skills

A universal, industry-neutral taxonomy of cognitive core skills (perception, memory, reasoning, planning, action, verification, learning, governance) for LLMs, SLMs, AI agents, and world models — with schemas, 159 skill cards, benchmarks, and CI.

https://github.com/eli-labz/Cognitive-Core-Skills ↗
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