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.
npx agentmods add skills/abilityai/cornelius/learn-new-thingsnpx skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill learn-new-thingsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/corneliusWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/cornelius/learn-new-things)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/cornelius/learn-new-things"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/cornelius/learn-new-things.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00020 | $0.04933 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.02466 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00987 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00493 |
Grade A, and why
learn-new-things 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 799 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Learn New Things - Continuous Learning Heartbeat
Autonomous learning loop that periodically expands the knowledge base through research, extraction, and connection discovery. Runs locally using existing skills and sub-agents.
Overview
This heartbeat skill implements a continuous learning cycle:
- Research - Discover cutting-edge papers and developments
- Extract - Pull unique insights into Document Insights
- Connect - Map discoveries to existing knowledge base
- Commit - Save results to dedicated git branch, return to main
- Rest - Wait for next cycle
Each cycle is a complete learning session. The heartbeat never "completes" - it continuously learns.
Git Workflow: Each learning session commits to its own branch (learning/YYYY-MM-DD-topic-slug), then returns to main. This keeps main clean while preserving all learning for selective merging.
Dependencies
- Skills:
/deep-research,/auto-discovery,/integrate-recent-notes,/refresh-index - Sub-agents: research-specialist, document-insight-extractor, connection-finder
- Local Brain Search: For semantic search and connection discovery
Usage
/learn-new-things # Default: 8-hour interval, auto-select topic
/learn-new-things 4 # 4-hour interval
/learn-new-things 8 "multi-agent systems" # Specific topic
/learn-new-things stop # Stop the learning loop
State Tracking
Track learning progress in resources/learn-new-things-log.md:
session_id: YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS
last_cycle: 2026-02-18T13:15:00
cycles_completed: 0
topics_researched: []
insights_extracted: 0
connections_discovered: 0
consecutive_errors: 0
phase: "running" # running | paused | error
branches_created: [] # e.g., ["learning/2026-02-18-embodied-cognition"]
STEP 1: Initialize State
Read or create state file:
cat resources/learn-new-things-log.md 2>/dev/null || echo "No existing state"
Parse arguments:
$ARGUMENTS[0]- Interval in hours (default: 8)$ARGUMENTS[1]- Optional topic (default: auto-select)
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 799 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A b5c8e5a8761f
learn-new-things is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (105 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 4,933 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.
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