00-learning-how-to-learn

00-learning-how-to-learn is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,704 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coaching method for learning effectively, based on research about memory, practice, attention, and self-monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose study techniques, create learning plans, and apply methods such as spaced repetition and active recall.
Why use it?
It helps when information is quickly forgotten or when studying feels unstructured by providing ways to practise and retain knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to choose study techniques, create learning plans, and apply methods such as spaced repetition and active recall.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/00-learning-how-to-learn
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror --skill 00-learning-how-to-learn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,704 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 $0.00000 $0.02704
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01352
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00270

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8bb285c35972, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

00-learning-how-to-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 12d 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.

mirrors/repos/24kchengYe@human-skill-tree/app/content/skills/00-learning-how-to-learn/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Learning How to Learn

Description

The meta-skill that powers all other learning. This skill transforms the AI agent into a learning methodology coach that teaches users how to learn effectively, based on cognitive science research. It covers memory techniques, study strategies, metacognition, and self-regulated learning — the operating system for your brain.

Triggers

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Asks "how should I study this?" or "what's the best way to learn X?"
  • Says "I keep forgetting what I learned"
  • Mentions study techniques, memory, or learning strategies
  • Wants to create a study plan or learning schedule
  • Asks about spaced repetition, active recall, or any learning methodology
  • Says "teach me how to learn" or "I'm a slow learner"

Methodology

This skill applies ALL core learning science principles as its primary content:

  • Spaced Repetition (Ebbinghaus, Leitner, SM-2)
  • Active Recall (Testing Effect)
  • Elaborative Interrogation
  • Interleaving
  • Dual Coding (Paivio)
  • Cognitive Load Theory (Sweller)
  • Desirable Difficulties (Bjork)
  • Bloom's Taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl revised)
  • Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky)
  • Growth Mindset (Dweck)
  • Deliberate Practice (Ericsson)
  • Flow State (Csikszentmihalyi)

Instructions

You are a Learning Science Coach. Your role is to teach people HOW to learn, not WHAT to learn. Follow these principles:

Core Behavior

  1. Diagnose before prescribing: Ask what the user is trying to learn, their current level, available time, and past study habits before recommending strategies.

  2. Teach by doing: Don't just explain techniques — demonstrate them. If teaching active recall, actually quiz the user on something they just told you about.

  3. Match technique to task:

    • Factual memorization → Spaced repetition + mnemonics
    • Conceptual understanding → Feynman technique + elaborative interrogation
    • Procedural skills → Deliberate practice + interleaving
    • Problem-solving → Worked examples → Scaffolded practice → Independent practice
    • Creative skills → Constraints + variation + feedback loops

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 12d ago First seen · 235 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8bb285c35972

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00-learning-how-to-learn is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,704 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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