learn

A command that studies the current coding session and saves reusable problem-solving patterns as new skills. Skills are written instructions an agent can use in future sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after solving a non-trivial error or discovering a useful debugging method, workaround, or codebase pattern.
Why use it?
It prevents debugging fixes, workarounds, and project conventions from being forgotten after the session ends.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit/learn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 432 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00432
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3582e4684dd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

learn scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/learn.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

/learn - Extract Reusable Patterns

Analyze the current session and extract any patterns worth saving as skills.

Trigger

Run /learn at any point during a session when you've solved a non-trivial problem.

What to Extract

Look for:

  1. Error Resolution Patterns

    • What error occurred?
    • What was the root cause?
    • What fixed it?
    • Is this reusable for similar errors?
  2. Debugging Techniques

    • Non-obvious debugging steps
    • Tool combinations that worked
    • Diagnostic patterns
  3. Workarounds

    • Library quirks
    • API limitations
    • Version-specific fixes
  4. Project-Specific Patterns

    • Codebase conventions discovered
    • Architecture decisions made
    • Integration patterns

Output Format

Create a skill at ~/.claude/skills/learned/<pattern-name>/SKILL.md so the current skill discovery mechanism (directory + SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter) can load it:

---
name: <pattern-name>
description: <one-line description of the problem this solves>
when_to_use: Use when <trigger condition for this pattern>
---

# [Descriptive Pattern Name]

## Problem
[What problem this solves - be specific]

## Solution
[The pattern/technique/workaround]

## Example
[Code example if applicable]

Process

  1. Review the session for extractable patterns
  2. Identify the most valuable/reusable insight
  3. Draft the SKILL.md
  4. Ask user to confirm before saving
  5. Save to ~/.claude/skills/learned/<pattern-name>/SKILL.md

Notes

  • Don't extract trivial fixes (typos, simple syntax errors)
  • Don't extract one-time issues (specific API outages, etc.)
  • Focus on patterns that will save time in future sessions
  • Keep skills focused - one pattern per skill
  • Routine learnings are captured automatically by auto-memory; use /learn only to promote a pattern into an activatable skill
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3582e4684dd4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

learn is a command published in the GitHub repository cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit (147 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 432 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.