Discover how you think — not how well, but the shape and texture of your cognition.
5 dimensions, 137 papers, one profile that makes AI adapt to you.
A 5-phase pipeline from discovery to persistent adaptation
Look for an existing cognitive profile in memory. If found, offer to keep it or retake the questionnaire.
15 scenario-based questions across 5 sections. Choose what you actually do, not what you wish you did.
Adaptive follow-up questions for ambiguous or tied results. Confirms the dominant value for each dimension.
Score each dimension, identify the D1↔D4 gap, and compute compensatory strategies for information loss.
Persist the full profile so Claude adapts all future responses to your cognitive style automatically.
Five independent axes that map how your cognition works
What you think with — the internal substrate of your cognition
How you advance your thinking — the engine that drives cognition forward
Where your thinking goes — the trajectory of your cognitive process
How you externalize thought — the bridge between mind and world
How you reason — the structure of your inferential process
Profile, translate, and bridge — a complete cognitive toolkit
15 scenario-based questions with adaptive deepening to map your cognitive style across all 5 dimensions. Includes gap analysis between how you think internally (D1) and how you externalize (D4). Saves to memory for persistent adaptation.
Fernyhough 2016 · Kahneman 2011 · Clark & Chalmers 1998Reformulates your natural prompts into optimized LLM format based on your profile. Turns vague intuitions into structured queries, spatial thinking into textual prompts, adversarial instincts into productive challenges. Minimizes information loss.
Clark & Chalmers 1998 · Lakoff & Johnson 1980 · Hofstadter 2013Takes a message and reformulates it for someone with a different cognitive profile. Not simplifying — translating between two ways of thinking. Reduces information loss at every translation boundary for cross-team communication.
Hutchins 1995 · Pickering & Garrod 2004 · De Bono 1985When your cognitive channel and externalization medium differ, information is lost in translation. The gap is often the most actionable insight.
| Internal (D1) | External (D4) | Gap Type | Level | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visuo-spatial | Voice / Writing | visual_to_verbal | HIGH | Use spatial metaphors, describe the diagram in your mind before arguing |
| Somatic | Voice / Writing | somatic_to_verbal | HIGH | Translate feelings into scales: "from 1 to 10, how convinced am I" |
| Somatic | Code / Formal | somatic_to_formal | HIGH | First turn the feeling into words, then formalize the words |
| Auditory | Writing | sonic_to_writing | MED-HIGH | Write the way you would speak, then structure it afterward |
| Verbal | Diagram | verbal_to_diagram | MEDIUM | Start from an ordered list, then transform it into a diagram |
| Abstract | Voice | abstract_to_voice | MEDIUM | Prepare a mental outline before speaking, use bridge phrases |
| Verbal | Writing | verbal_to_writing | LOW | Write fast, revise later — capture the flow first |
| Visuo-spatial | Diagram | visual_to_diagram | NONE | Natural alignment — focus on making diagrams readable for others |
| Verbal | Voice | verbal_to_voice | NONE | Natural alignment — focus on structuring speech for audience |
Built on 137 peer-reviewed papers across neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of mind
Fernyhough, C. (2016) — Foundational work on inner speech as condensed, fragmented internal dialogue. Central to the verbal-internal channel.
Kosslyn, S. M. (1994) — Demonstrates that mental images activate primary visual cortex, establishing the neurological basis of visual-spatial thinking.
Damasio, A. R. (1994) — Somatic marker hypothesis: bodily feelings guide decision-making and constitute a genuine cognitive channel.
Kahneman, D. (2011) — System 1/System 2 framework. System 2 (slow, deliberate thinking) is often verbal. Foundational for reasoning strategies.
Varela, F. J., Thompson, E. & Rosch, E. (1991) — Foundational text for embodied cognition: thinking passes through the body.
Zeman, A., Dewar, M. & Della Sala, S. (2015) — First formal characterization of aphantasia, defining one extreme of the visual-spatial channel.
De Bono, E. (1967) — Lateral thinking as a deliberate cognitive strategy for changing frames and finding unexpected angles.
Guilford, J. P. (1956) — Distinguishes convergent from divergent production, establishing direction as a measurable cognitive dimension.
Gentner, D. (1983) — Systematic analysis of analogical reasoning as structural alignment between domains.
Clark, A. & Chalmers, D. (1998) — Cognition extends beyond the skull into tools, notebooks, and external media. Core theory for D4.
Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003) — Gestures actively influence and shape cognitive processes, not mere accompaniment to thought.
Peirce, C. S. (1903) — Original formulation of abductive reasoning as inference to the best explanation. Foundation for D5.
Hofstadter, D. & Sander, E. (2013) — Analogy as the core mechanism of cognition, not a rhetorical device.
Hutchins, E. (1995) — Distributed cognition: information is lost at every translation boundary when two minds communicate.
Pickering, M. J. & Garrod, S. (2004) — Interactive alignment theory: successful communication requires converging mental representations.
Full list of 137 references available in the interactive web questionnaire.
git clone https://github.com/fullo/claude-thinking-habit.git
cp -r claude-thinking-habit/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/claude plugin marketplace add fullo/claude-plugins-marketplace
claude plugin install thinking-habit@fullo-pluginsWorks with any tool that supports the Agent Skills format. Requires memory system for profile persistence.
Trigger skills with slash commands or natural language
/thinking-profileprofile my thinkingdiscover my cognitive stylehow do I think?/thinking-translator "I feel like the auth flow
has a timing issue but I can't pinpoint it"translate my thinking into a better prompt/thinking-bridge "translate this technical
explanation for a visual thinker"bridge this message for someone who
thinks in stories and examplesprofila il mio pensierotraduci il mio pensiero