learn

A command that records useful lessons from difficult problems, workarounds, and repeated failed attempts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save a problem, its solution, and a reminder for next time in a learned-pattern file.
Why use it?
It keeps recurring mistakes and environment-specific fixes from being forgotten.

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/helloruru/claude-memory-engine/learn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HelloRuru/claude-memory-engine
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 292 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 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00029

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3a4b23b99891, 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 · 44 lines

What it actually says

/learn -- Auto-Learn from Mistakes

Automatically detect and save pitfall experiences during work sessions.

When to Trigger (Claude decides on its own)

  1. Pitfall resolved -- Tried the wrong approach, eventually found the fix
  2. Non-obvious workaround -- Browser quirks, library limitations, platform-specific behavior
  3. Path/environment traps -- Windows path issues, ~ resolution errors, cross-platform differences
  4. Deployment gotchas -- Hosting platform quirks, cache issues, DNS delays
  5. 3+ attempts to solve -- If it took 3+ tries, it's worth recording

What NOT to Learn

  • Settings already documented in CLAUDE.md or project docs
  • Common CSS/HTML patterns (easily searchable)
  • One-off fixes that won't happen again

Save Format

Save to ~/.claude/skills/learned/{pattern-name}.md:

# {Descriptive Title}

**Date:** {today}
**Project:** {which project}

## Problem
{What happened, what context}

## Solution
{How it was fixed}

## Next Time
{What situation should remind you of this}

Behavior

  • After saving, briefly tell the user: "Learned: {title}"
  • Don't write a long explanation of why it was saved
  • Learn quietly, don't interrupt the workflow
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 · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3a4b23b99891

Subscribe to this mod's changes

learn is a command published in the GitHub repository HelloRuru/claude-memory-engine (133 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 292 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.

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