Cognitive Core Skills

Release v1.0.0

Initial public release of the Cognitive Core Skills taxonomy.

Highlights

• Introduces a universal, industry-neutral taxonomy for production AI capability design and evaluation.
• Ships with 157 skill entries across 13 domains.
• Includes first-pass governance coverage for verification, grounding, and cognitive debt framing.

Included in this release

Taxonomy data

• data/cognitive-core-skills.json
• data/cognitive-core-skills.yaml

Schemas

• schemas/cognitive-core-skill.schema.json
• schemas/cognitive-core-taxonomy.schema.json

Documentation

• Full docs set under docs/cognitive-core-skills/
• Dedicated sections for:
  • LLM Wiki skills
  • OKF-aligned catalog skills
  • Evaluation rubric
  • Cognitive Debt Index (CDI)

Validation and CI

• Taxonomy validation tests in tests/test_cognitive_core_taxonomy.py
• CI workflow in .github/workflows/taxonomy-ci.yml

Changelog reference

Source: docs/cognitive-core-skills/CHANGELOG.md under ## 1.0.0 - 2026-07-05.

Notes

This release establishes the baseline taxonomy contract. Subsequent additions are tracked in the Unreleased section of the changelog and will be included in the next versioned release.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/eli-labz/Cognitive-Core-Skills/commits/Cognitive-Core-Skills