lesson-capture

lesson-capture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liza-mas/liza. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,503 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for recording project-specific lessons learned from mistakes, discoveries, and recurring pitfalls in small Markdown files. The lessons are separated for agents and human teammates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an incident or important discovery to document a repeatable safeguard, workflow habit, or project rule for future work.
Why use it?
It prevents hard-won knowledge from being forgotten or rediscovered through the same mistakes. Each lesson explains when it applies, what failed, and what to do instead.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it after an incident or important discovery to document a repeatable safeguard, workflow habit, or project rule for future work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liza-mas/liza/lesson-capture
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 liza-mas/liza --skill lesson-capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liza-mas/liza

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,503 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 $0.00019 $0.01503
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00150

Measured 11d ago against content hash 996fed171358, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lesson-capture 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 11d 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/lesson-capture/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Objective

Extract a lesson from the current conversation context and persist it as a structured file. Lessons are project-specific operational knowledge — gotchas, patterns, and hard-won insights that prevent recurring mistakes.

Lessons complement the contract: the contract governs how to work (behavioral, project-agnostic); lessons capture what we learned here (operational, project-specific).

Audience

Lessons are split by audience:

Audience Directory Discovery Content
Agents lessons/agents/ GUARDRAILS.md trigger index Project-specific gotchas agents hit repeatedly
Humans lessons/humans/ lessons/humans/README.md Workflow habits, domain pitfalls, invariants to preserve

If audience is ambiguous, ask.

Lesson Format

Each lesson is a small .md file with yaml frontmatter.

---
title: "Descriptive title"
trigger: "When [succinct situational condition]"
keywords: [keyword1, keyword2, keyword3]
date: YYYY-MM-DD
---

## Context

[Situation, intent, and conditions that led to this lesson]

## Failure Mode

[What went wrong and why]

## Solution

[What to do instead]

## References

- [Links to relevant files, docs, specs, or external resources]

Frontmatter fields:

  • title: What the lesson is about (noun phrase)
  • trigger: When to consult this lesson (action phrase, starts with "When")
  • keywords: Concrete terms for matching — error messages, class names, tool names, file patterns
  • date: When the lesson was captured

Body sections:

  • Context: Enough detail to recognize the situation. Not a narrative — a pattern description.
  • Failure Mode: The specific thing that goes wrong. Name the mechanism, not just the symptom.
  • Solution: Concrete, actionable. Code snippets or commands when applicable.
  • References: Links to files, docs, specs, external resources. Keep it short.

Index Format

Audience Location
Agents GUARDRAILS.md (Tier 2)
Humans lessons/humans/README.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 11d ago First seen · 163 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 996fed171358

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lesson-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository liza-mas/liza (382 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,503 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 2026-08-30.

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