capture-learning

capture-learning is a skill for Claude Code from arozumenko/sdlc-skills. It costs 166 tokens per session (2,793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for recording useful product discoveries as searchable notes. Each note connects a problem, what happened, and the lesson learned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a hypothesis is tested, an experiment changes a metric, an assumption is rejected, or an external service behaves differently from its documentation.
Why use it?
It prevents important findings from experiments, failed assumptions, or unexpected vendor behaviour from being forgotten or recorded inconsistently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-skills plugin — 53 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after a hypothesis is tested, an experiment changes a metric, an assumption is rejected, or an external service behaves differently from its documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arozumenko/sdlc-skills/capture-learning
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.

Any agent
npx skills add arozumenko/sdlc-skills --skill capture-learning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arozumenko/sdlc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for capture-learning

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for capture-learning

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,793 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00166 $0.02793
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.01396
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00279

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9b28341d33a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-learning 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 9d 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.

bundles/product-management/skills/capture-learning/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capture Learning

The point is compounding: every non-trivial product discovery should make the next similar one easier. A searchable store of problem -> outcome -> lesson triples in docs/discovery/evidence/learnings/ is the simplest way to make that real — but only if it is reconciled, not accreted. The learning store is written ONLY through the reconcile protocol below, never blind-append.

This skill captures positive knowledge — what was learned, including from losses. A product anti-pattern lives here too, framed as a learning ("we tried X assuming Y, learned Y was false, so future similar work should test Y first"). A durable rule the product will follow belongs in a decision record instead (see "Learning vs decision record").

This runs at a natural pause or on explicit invocation — never interleaved with an in-flight pipeline step.

When to capture

Capture? Example (domain-neutral)
Yes A hypothesis shipped and its outcome metric moved — record what moved it.
Yes A hypothesis was tested (interviews, a prototype, a trial) and killed — record why the assumption broke.
Yes A vendor / data source / external service behaved differently than its docs implied.
Yes A product decision was made non-obviously, for a real reason that would not reconstruct from the decision record alone.
Skip "We renamed a field" — not a learning.
Skip Anything already covered in a decision record or the hypothesis itself.
Skip "We'd do it differently next time" with no specific reason — a retro complaint, not a learning.

Procedure

The full rules live in references/reconcile-protocol.md; this is the operational summary. Do every step — the reconcile and the self-verification are what separate a compounding store from a junk drawer.

1. Pick the track and mint the ID

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 198 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 9b28341d33a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

capture-learning is a skill published in the GitHub repository arozumenko/sdlc-skills (20 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 2,793 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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