guild-learn

A dispatcher for learning an entire existing project when `/guild:learn` is used without a specific subcommand. It identifies the project type, asks for confirmation, and runs the appropriate learning work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want a complete project-learning run, optionally as a dry run or against a specified directory. It does not handle individual learning subcommands, graph queries, or external-source ingestion.
Why use it?
It removes the need to choose and run each project-understanding step manually while keeping targeted commands available for specific tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/lookatitude/guild/learn
Any agent
npx skills add lookatitude/guild --skill learn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lookatitude/guild

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 284 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,496 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 $0.00284 $0.06496
Opus 5 $0.00142 $0.03248
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.01299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00650

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9e4fcb59bbeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guild-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 2d 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/knowledge/learn/SKILL.md · 450 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 450 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to use it

Use when /guild:learn is called with no sub-verb — the "learn this project completely" intent. Implements the §"Smart /guild:learn Behavior" contract from learn-knowledge-run-convergence.md (SC-A).

Explicit sub-verbs (map, graph, onboard, diff, explain) bypass this skill entirely and route directly to their specialist skill. This skill owns only the no-arg full-learn path.

When not to use it

Not for any explicit sub-verb invocation (those go directly to guild:learn-map / guild:learn-graph / guild:learn-onboard / guild:learn-diff / guild:learn-explain). Not for querying an existing graph (kg-query / guild:wiki-query). Not for a single-source ingest (guild:wiki-ingest). Not as an alternative to guild:learn-harvest (which is for phase/run artifact extraction, not code).

Required inputs

  • The repo root (resolved worktree-safe; lib/paths.ts redirects ephemeral worktrees to the main root).
  • Optional: --dry-run flag → print the fan-out plan, write nothing.
  • Optional: --cwd <path> to override the detected root.
  • Config: readWorkspaceKnowledgeConfig(root) from B2's plugin/scripts/lib/run-lifecycle.ts exposes learn_fanout: "auto" | "plan-only" (B2 handoff §3).

Detection and confirmation (never silent)

Implements the §"Detection" contract (brief §170-177, spec SC-A):

Classify the target into exactly one of:

regular_project         has .guild/ or .git/, no child repos at depth-1
workspace               ≥1 immediate children with .git/ or .guild/ (detected
                        by workspace/detect.ts)
existing_guild_project  regular project with a populated .guild/wiki/
new_or_sparse_project   .guild/ absent or empty; ≤5 tracked files
mixed_or_uncertain      children found but ambiguous (some have .git/, some have
                        .guild/, workspace/detect.ts reports "uncertain")

Detection script: npx tsx ${GUILD_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.local/share/guild/dist/claude-code}}/scripts/workspace/detect.ts --cwd <root> (depth-1 fixed, no knob). For mixed_or_uncertain surface one targeted question before proceeding; never silent-proceed on uncertainty. Mirror the bare /guild:guild §5.1 confirm contract: show detection → ask proceed / pick / explain.

Read the full file on GitHub · 450 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 450 lines · 284 tokens per session scan A 9e4fcb59bbeb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guild-learn is a skill published in the GitHub repository lookatitude/guild (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 284 tokens to every session and 6,496 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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