failure-learning

failure-learning is a skill for Claude Code from ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry. It costs 26 tokens per session (193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for saving concise, reusable lessons after a serious, recurring, or costly failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record the symptom, proven cause, evidence, recovery, early warning sign, and suitable memory location.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from repeating the same investigation without remembering the observed cause and successful recovery.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-psychiatry plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to record the symptom, proven cause, evidence, recovery, early warning sign, and suitable memory location.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ihabkhaled/ai-psychiatry/failure-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 ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry --skill failure-learning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-psychiatry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 193 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 $0.00026 $0.00193
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00097
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00019

Measured 9d ago against content hash b70b30c3eb85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

failure-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.

.ai/skills/failure-learning/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Failure Learning

Core principle

Save reusable conclusions and recovery, never full debugging transcripts or hidden reasoning.

Procedure

  1. Name the observable symptom.
  2. State the evidenced root cause.
  3. Record the evidence source and successful recovery.
  4. Describe how to detect the pattern earlier.
  5. Check stability, reuse value, and future token savings.
  6. Store it in failure-patterns or lessons, or reject promotion.

Required output

Symptom, root cause, evidence, recovery, early signal, and memory destination.

Limits

One concise entry per reusable pattern.

Common mistakes

Do not save temporary errors, speculative diagnoses, giant output, or raw chain-of-thought.

Stop condition

Stop when the reusable lesson is stored concisely or judged too temporary.

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 · 37 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b70b30c3eb85

Subscribe to this mod's changes

failure-learning is a skill published in the GitHub repository ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry (3 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 193 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 2026-08-31.

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