ponder
87 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Convergent deliberation loop - repeated grading passes over one subject until the answer stops changing, with coverage enforced so no unit is silently skipped. Use when the user says "ponder <anything>" ("ponder the UI", "ponder our error handling"), "think this over properly", "keep thinking until it converges", "keep looping until it converges", "loop on this until it stops changing", "go through all the screens and grade them", "audit/rate/grade every X", or asks for any broad sweep-and-grad…
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
Changes files outside its own folder
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ponder' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ponder' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ponder already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '227949a7542a55d2155c00e7cdb998d9a0fee4f3' -- 'skills/ponder' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/ponder' ~/.agents/skills/'ponder' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ponder' ~/.claude/skills/'ponder' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
Badge for your README
[](https://zalavijaysinh.github.io/skilltrust/repos/github/awesome-copilot/)
Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-10 | 227949a | 87 |
| 2026-11-08 | 797337f | 87 |
| 2026-11-07 | 797337f | 87 |