Metacognition

"Pick how to think before you think. The wrong reasoning shape costs more than a slow answer." [INFERENCE]

TL;DR

Selects the reasoning pattern a task needs — Structured Reasoning · Skeleton-of-Thought · Chain-of-Code · Tree of Thought · Committee/Panel — then applies the cross-cutting supports ([CONFIANZA: x] scoring, bias scan, verify-the-verifier). It is a router, not a re-implementation: the canon lives in orchestration/metacognition-protocol.md; the executable map in docs/METACOGNITION.md; this skill turns a task into the right pattern + the skill that runs it. Loads only the pattern playbook the task needs (ICM layered context). [EXPLICIT]

When to use

• You are unsure how to think about a task (which reasoning shape fits). [EXPLICIT]
• A decision is high-stakes, ambiguous, or has no obvious winner (→ ToT or Committee). [EXPLICIT]
• You need a second opinion or to check your own reasoning for bias before committing. [EXPLICIT]
• NOT for a direct one-step answer (just answer) and NOT for parallelism mechanics — that is agentic-parallelism-decision. [INFERENCE]

Selection (route by task shape + confidence)

Confidence gate: score the decision [CONFIANZA: x] first. ≥0.8 → a single pattern is enough · 0.5–0.7 → escalate to ToT or Committee · <0.5 → escalate to the user, do not proceed on assumption. [DOC]

Procedure

1. Classify the task shape and score [CONFIANZA: x]. [EXPLICIT]
2. Route to the pattern via the table; for ToT/Committee open the matching references/ playbook (L3, on-demand — do not load both). [EXPLICIT]
3. Run the pattern through the skill it maps to; ToT generates branches, the Committee judges them, Structured Reasoning synthesizes. [EXPLICIT]
4. Bias scan before committing: anchoring / confirmation / availability / sunk-cost; if detected, seek counter-evidence. [DOC]
5. Verify with an independent checker (Guardian ≠ Lead, Art. 9); record minority dissent even when overruled. [EXPLICIT]

Quality Criteria

• Pattern chosen by task shape + confidence, not by habit. [INFERENCE]
• For wide solution spaces, ≥2 independent branches were generated (not variants of one). [DOC]
• High-stakes decisions passed a multi-perspective panel; the verifier ≠ the producer. [DOC]
• Conclusion carries [CONFIANZA: x]; <0.5 escalated, not assumed. [DOC]
• Bias scan run; claims evidence-tagged. [EXPLICIT]

Anti-Patterns

• One reasoning shape for everything (Structured Reasoning on a wide-open design → premature convergence). [INFERENCE]
• ToT "branches" that are three rewordings of the same idea (no real diversity → anchoring survives). [DOC]
• Self-verification (the producer grades its own output → confirmation bias). [DOC]

Contract

• Aceptación: tarea clasificada + [CONFIANZA: x]; patrón ruteado; ToT con ramas independientes; high-stakes con panel + verify-the-verifier; bias scan corrido; disidencia registrada. [EXPLICIT]
• Límites: rutea y aplica patrones de razonamiento; NO reimplementa el canon (orchestration/metacognition-protocol.md) ni mecánica de paralelismo (agentic-parallelism-decision). [EXPLICIT]
• Casos borde: dos ramas empatan → Comité o [CONFIANZA: x]+usuario; confianza <0.5 → escalar, no proceder. [DOC]
• Supuestos: las skills destino (socratic-debate, agent-team-orchestration, katas) están disponibles. [SUPUESTO]
• Trade-off: ToT/Comité cuestan más tokens/tiempo a cambio de menos error en decisiones caras; por eso el confidence gate los reserva para <0.8. [EXPLICIT]

Related Skills

• socratic-debate — la encarnación de Tree of Thought (tesis→antítesis→síntesis). [EXPLICIT]
• agentic-parallelism-decision — mecánica de ejecución paralela (complementaria, no metacognición). [EXPLICIT]
• agent-team-orchestration — ejecuta el modo Committee/Panel. [EXPLICIT]
• trade-off-analysis, feasibility-validation — consumidores típicos del routing ToT. [EXPLICIT]

Packet

Capas del packet, cargables bajo demanda (disciplina ICM: una capa por vez, nunca todas juntas): references/ guías de profundidad (cargar UNA por etapa) · knowledge/ cuerpo de conocimiento · prompts/ prompts listos · examples/ salida de ejemplo · agents/ subagentes del packet · assets/ recursos estáticos.