learn-occam

learn-occam is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Li-Evan/Bloom. It costs 155 tokens per session (824 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide for choosing whether to learn something new, and how deeply to learn it. It weighs the concrete problem, what you already know, how quickly the knowledge may become outdated, and the likely benefit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to learn a technology, concept, or skill, especially when time is limited or several learning options compete.
Why use it?
It removes time wasted studying topics without a clear use. It helps distinguish between learning deeply, learning only the necessary part, and postponing the topic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the Bloom plugin — 7 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/li-evan/bloom/learn-occam
Any agent
npx skills add Li-Evan/Bloom --skill learn-occam
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Li-Evan/Bloom

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install Bloom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 824 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00155 $0.00824
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00412
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00082

Measured 5d ago against content hash cdccde274c6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

learn-occam 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 5d 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.

skills/learn-occam/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

简易策略(learn-occam)

核心信条:这世界最有价值的不是知识,是你的时间。 能用现有知识解决的就别学新的;以后要用的,以后再学。

何时用

用户在纠结"要不要学 X / 学到什么程度 / 精力往哪放"。这是"广度优先、兴趣队列过长"倾向的刹车

流程

第一步:先找"既定问题"

逼问一句:你要解决的具体问题是什么? 没有具体问题、纯"感觉该学 / 别人都在学"→ 直接进"以后再学"队列,不占当下精力。理解知识的作用,重于知识本身。

第二步:现有知识能不能搞定

问清用户已经会什么——能解决就别学新的。拿不准"是不是其实已经会了"就配合 learn-crossover

第三步:贬值速度 + ROI

这知识多久会贬值?(技术栈 / 工具往往 6–12 个月就明显更新)相对有限的时间值不值?贬值快 + 可外包给 AI / 随时查 → 只需"知道它存在、管什么",不必真学。

第四步:探索 vs 应用(N 臂老虎机)

现在该"探索"(学新)还是"应用"(用现有)?探索成本越高 → 越该偏应用。只有目标够难、现有知识确实够不着时,简易策略才督促你学。

第五步:给结论

明确三选一:① 学(值得且现有搞不定)/ ② 不学(入"以后再学"队列)/ ③ 只学最小够用的那一块(点明是哪一小块)。要深挖就转 learn-graph 建路径。

注意

⚠️ 铁律·只用确证的已会知识:判断用户「已经会什么」只能用他确证学过的知识(亲口确认或可靠背景);严禁把「正在讲的材料 / 文章作者背景 / 对话里别人的知识」当成用户会的。拿不准 → 直接问「⚠️ 你学过 ___ 吗?」,绝不替他假设。

  • 简易策略不是"少学",是"让问题决定你学什么"。
  • 它的缺点是易陷局部最优——拿不准"是不是缺前置知识"时转 learn-graph
  • 同族 skill:learn-crossover(已会什么) learn-graph(系统建图) learn-prototype(动手迭代) learn-feynman(自查)。
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. 5d ago First seen · 43 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A cdccde274c6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

learn-occam is a skill published in the GitHub repository Li-Evan/Bloom (250 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 824 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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