recognition-over-recall
100 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Use this skill whenever the user must locate or choose something from many possibilities — pickers, command palettes, navigation menus, autocompletes, recents lists, search results, settings panels. Trigger when designing inputs that ask the user to "type the right thing," when picking between dropdowns and search-first interfaces, when reviewing why users keep typing wrong values into autocomplete fields. Recognition Over Recall is one of the foundational principles in 'Universal Principles of…
What this skill can do
We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'recognition-over-recall' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'recognition-over-recall' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named recognition-over-recall already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '70b6a3a3a7c774671e45af646306e1448baf0511' -- 'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/recognition-over-recall' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/recognition-over-recall' ~/.agents/skills/'recognition-over-recall' && 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/'recognition-over-recall' ~/.claude/skills/'recognition-over-recall' (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
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-14 | 70b6a3a | 100 |
| 2026-11-13 | 3e1e6b2 | 100 |
| 2026-11-12 | 6d2e63f | 100 |
| 2026-11-11 | 4070676 | 100 |
| 2026-11-10 | f620aba | 100 |
| 2026-11-09 | 3062ea3 | 100 |
| 2026-11-08 | 057d789 | 100 |
| 2026-11-06 | e012fe1 | 100 |