What is cognitive load new habits?

Cognitive load new habits is a concept in personal epistemology: Every new agent interacts with all existing agents — add new agents deliberately.

Example: You run a morning routine with three agents: a planning agent that reviews your calendar, a journaling agent that prompts a daily reflection, and a reading agent that queues articles. The system works. Then you add a fitness-tracking agent, a meal-planning agent, and a language-learning agent — all in the same week. Within days, the morning becomes a two-hour gauntlet of competing demands. The journaling agent's output now conflicts with the planning agent's priorities. The meal-planning agent introduces decisions that consume bandwidth the reading agent used to occupy. You did not add three agents. You added three agents plus nine new interaction channels plus six new potential conflicts. The system that worked with three agents collapses under six — not because any individual agent is bad, but because the interaction surface grew faster than your capacity to manage it.

This concept is part of Phase 26 (Multi-Agent Coordination) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for multi-agent coordination.