metacognitive-monitoring
Active supervision of the problem-solving process. Covers Schoenfeld's control layer, Ann Brown's self-regulation moves, planning-monitoring-evaluating cycle, time budgeting, strategy switching, and the "what am I doing and why?" check. Use continuously alongside any solving activity to avoid wandering, dead ends, and unproductive grinding.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill metacognitive-monitoring --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Metacognitive Monitoring Metacognition is thinking about your thinking. In problem solving, it is the supervisor process that interrupts execution to ask: "Am I still on the right track? Is my current activity the best use of this moment? Do I need to reconsider?" Schoenfeld's research on mathematical problem solving shows that novices who grind for 20 minutes on a dead end outperform instantly when taught to pause every 2-3 minutes and check. This skill is the catalog of the checks. **Agent affinity:** brown-ps (self-regulation, reciprocal teaching), schoenfeld (control layer), polya-ps (review phase) **Concept IDs:** prob-problem-representation, prob-adaptive-management, prob-uncertainty-management, prob-trial-error-iteration ## The Planning-Monitoring-Evaluating Cycle Metacognition decomposes into three phases: 1. **Planning:** Before solving, decide what to do. 2. **Monitoring:** During solving, check that you are doing it. 3. **Evaluating:** After solving, decide what worked. These run nested inside problem solving, not alongside it. ## Planning Operations **Goal:** Set the meta-level frame for the solving session. **Operations:** - **Goal clarification.** What am I actually
- The Planning-Monitoring-Evaluating Cycle
- Planning Operations
- Monitoring Operations
- Evaluating Operations
- Ann Brown's Self-Regulation Moves
- Schoenfeld's Control Timeline
- Time Budgeting
- Strategy Switching
- Worked Example — A Stalled Solver
- When Metacognitive Monitoring Fails
- Cross-References
What does the metacognitive-monitoring skill do?
Active supervision of the problem-solving process. Covers Schoenfeld's control layer, Ann Brown's self-regulation moves, planning-monitoring-evaluating cycle, time budgeting, strategy switching, and the "what am I doing and why?" check. Use continuously alongside any solving activity to avoid wandering, dead ends, and unproductive grinding.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill metacognitive-monitoring --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.