nixos-config: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/capture-learning-candidate/SKILL.md

capture-learning-candidate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FilipNowakowicz/nixos-config. It costs 42 tokens per session (763 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for recording one reusable lesson from completed work as a reviewable candidate. The candidate is stored for later human review and does not change the agent’s behavior by itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after work reveals a general lesson supported by evidence, such as a failing check, a user correction, or a repository-specific trap.
Why use it?
It prevents useful discoveries from being lost while avoiding direct, unchecked changes to project instructions or rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is FilipNowakowicz/nixos-config's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on nixos-config itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything nixos-config configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to FilipNowakowicz/nixos-config. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FilipNowakowicz/nixos-config/main/.agents/skills/capture-learning-candidate/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FilipNowakowicz/nixos-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 763 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 $0.00042 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00076

Measured 10d ago against content hash 22b12e8bff68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-learning-candidate 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 10d 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.

.agents/skills/capture-learning-candidate/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capture Learning Candidate

When work surfaces something a future agent should know, record one compact candidate under .agents/learning/candidates/. Candidates are machine-routed proposals reviewed later by a human-gated reviewer — see .agents/learning/README.md. Capturing a candidate must never change agent behavior on its own.

When to capture (high bar)

File a candidate only when all hold:

  • The lesson is reusable across future sessions, not a one-off fact.
  • You have verifiable evidence (commit, file:line, failing check output, or a direct user correction).
  • It is not already encoded in CLAUDE.md, lib/invariants.nix, a test, a hook, or an existing skill.

Strong triggers: a user correction of how you worked; a validation gate (scripts/validate.sh, merge-gate) catching something a careful agent would have avoided; a non-obvious repo gotcha you only learned by hitting it; or a repo/CI fix that should become a durable check, hook, skill, or doc update.

When NOT to capture

  • One-off or session-only context (belongs in your normal summary, nowhere else).
  • Anything already covered by docs, invariants, tests, hooks, or skills.
  • Ephemeral user/preference facts better suited to auto-memory.
  • A lesson you cannot back with evidence.

Prefer fewer, higher-signal candidates. Skipping is the default.

Workflow

  1. Do not scan candidate bodies. Build 3-6 query terms from the issue shape, file paths, commands, CI job, host, or hook involved.
  2. Run bash .agents/learning/scripts/query-candidates.sh <terms>.
    • If it returns a likely duplicate, open only that candidate file and update it in place.
    • If it returns nothing relevant, create a new candidate.
  3. Copy .agents/learning/TEMPLATE.yml to .agents/learning/candidates/<date>-<kebab-slug>.yml.
  4. Fill the required fields with terse, grep-friendly values:
    • route: implement-fix, promote-memory, promote-skill, promote-hook, promote-doc, or reject.
    • best_form: strongest viable artifact, preferring executable checks over hooks, hooks over skills, and skills over prose docs.
    • evidence, observation, proposed_upgrade, plus date/expires/ status. The optional fields (triggers, targets, dedupe_key, type, risk, agent) are commented out in the template — add one only when it adds real routing signal. Do not pad fields to look thorough.
  5. Mention the captured candidate's path in your work summary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 10d ago First seen · 68 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 22b12e8bff68

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capture-learning-candidate is a skill published in the GitHub repository FilipNowakowicz/nixos-config (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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