lesson

lesson is a command for Claude Code from sdsrss/claude-mem-lite. It costs 62 tokens per session (678 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for recording a non-obvious coding lesson, bug cause, or workaround as a searchable observation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving lessons about bugs, API behavior, required call order, import problems, or file-specific workarounds for later searches.
Why use it?
It prevents tricky discoveries from being forgotten while keeping them out of the main system-prompt memory section.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-mem-lite plugin — 8 commands, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Saving lessons about bugs, API behavior, required call order, import problems, or file-specific workarounds for later searches.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add sdsrss/claude-mem-lite
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-mem-lite

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-mem-lite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 commands, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 678 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00062 $0.00678
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00271
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash bfc9a6572388, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lesson 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/lesson.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/lesson

Record a lesson / gotcha / workaround. Writes a searchable observation (type=discovery with the text as lesson_learned) so future sessions can find it via mem_search and the PreToolUse recall hooks surface it on the relevant files. Does NOT touch memdir — so lessons never end up in the auto-memory index Claude Code loads into every session, and do not conflict with Claude Code's auto-memory rules on what not to save there.

When to use

After you (or the user) solve a tricky bug or discover a non-obvious behavior:

  • "you need to call X before Y or the test hangs"
  • "don't use this import path — it shadows the real module"
  • "the API returns null when you pass empty string, even though docs say it throws"

Don't use for trivial fixes (typos, renames), for rules that belong in memdir (user preferences, project-wide conventions), or for general project notes (use /claude-mem-lite:memory or mem_save instead).

Arguments

  • Positional text: the lesson description (what went wrong + root cause + fix).
  • --file <path>: scope to a specific file. The lesson will surface via pre-tool-recall the next time the file is opened via Edit/Write.
  • --files f1,f2,f3: comma-separated list for multiple files.
  • --importance <1|2|3>: default 2. Use 3 for critical lessons you always want surfaced; 1 for minor gotchas.

Execution

Run via Bash — pass the full lesson text as the positional content, and a distilled version in --lesson so it lands in the high-weight lesson_learned field. --lesson is capped at 500 chars (longer values are rejected), so for a long lesson keep the full text in the positional content and trim --lesson to the core insight:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cli.mjs" save "<full text>" \
  --type discovery \
  --title "<first 60 chars of text>" \
  --lesson "<core insight, ≤500 chars>" \
  [--files f1,f2,...] \
  --importance <1|2|3>

Confirm to user with: Lesson saved: #<id>.

Examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

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 Changed bfc9a6572388
  2. 3d ago Changed · -1 lines bc6fe08312e0
  3. 27d ago Changed 719f18a7fc16
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A fa8116c676fc

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lesson is a command published in the GitHub repository sdsrss/claude-mem-lite (67 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 678 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.