wicked-garden-learn

wicked-garden-learn is a skill for Claude Code from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. It costs 250 tokens per session (1,774 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that learns from outside sources and saves cited findings in a repository. bioRxiv, for example, is a public site where researchers share scientific papers before formal peer review; this workflow records source links and dates for acquired claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic or event, build a claims ledger, discuss the findings, and create structured knowledge files and source-citing skills.
Why use it?
It separates sourced knowledge from what an operator merely says and keeps the evidence alongside the resulting project files.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the wicked-garden plugin — 145 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a topic or event, build a claims ledger, discuss the findings, and create structured knowledge files and source-citing skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mikeparcewski/wicked-garden/learn
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 mikeparcewski/wicked-garden --skill learn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mikeparcewski/wicked-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wicked-garden, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 145 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 250 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,774 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00250 $0.01774
Opus 5.5 $0.00100 $0.00710
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00050 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00177

Measured 16d ago against content hash fb627451f0f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wicked-garden-learn scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 16d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| `research` | neutral | nothing | Fetch sources with your web tools (or `curl -sL`). For each source, record the URL, title, published date when the page states one, and `observed_at` = now in UTC. Draft candidate claim
skills/learn/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Learn: outside knowledge, cited, into the repository

Learn ACQUIRES knowledge: it reads sources outside the repository and records what they say, each claim with the URL it came from and when it was seen. What the operator says during the walkthrough is not acquired knowledge; it is a memory (witnessed or told), so it goes in the README's "Operator notes", never into the claims ledger. The repository is the record: a pull request delivers the files, a human merges them, and only then is the topic indexed into the estate knowledge store.

Runtime

Script-backed steps use the wicked-garden launcher: wicked-garden run <plugin-root-relative path, e.g. scripts/…> [args]. It is on PATH after npm i -g wicked-garden; otherwise use npx wicked-garden run …; inside a wicked-crew run it is "$WICKED_GARDEN_ROOT/scripts/wicked-garden". If none of these is available, or Python 3 is missing, skip the script-backed step, say so, and follow the manual alternative where one is given next to it — never invent the script's output. Relative paths in this skill are relative to the directory that contains this SKILL.md.

Actions (one per learn workflow phase)

Action Role Writes Does
scope neutral nothing Name the slug (kebab-case, at most 64 characters), the kind (topic or event), 3 to 7 questions to answer, what is out of scope, and the source policy: primary sources first (specs, official docs, release notes, the project's own site), dated reporting for events. Read .wicked/knowledge/<slug>/ if it exists: then this run is a refresh (see refs/refresh.md).
research neutral nothing Fetch sources with your web tools (or curl -sL). For each source, record the URL, title, published date when the page states one, and observed_at = now in UTC. Draft candidate claims, each tied to the sources that support it. No network: write research: no web access and stop; never answer from memory as if it were sourced.
synthesize neutral nothing Turn the candidates into the claims ledger (refs/claims.md): one atomic, checkable statement per claim, deduplicated. Leave new claim ids to the author (a neutral seat may not run scripts); on a refresh keep each existing id. Keep only claims that would help a fresh session in 3 months. On a refresh, output the diff against the existing ledger.
walkthrough neutral nothing Teach it in the run thread: a 5-line summary, a worked example, what changed (on a refresh), the open questions, and 3 to 5 check questions. The operator answers, asks or corrects by sending the step back; answer each point, re-teach what was unclear, and mark which corrections you verified against a source.
author creator .wicked/knowledge/<slug>/, skills Compute each new claim's id (wicked-garden run scripts/learn/check.py --claim-id "<text>"), write the files (refs/claims.md), then run the check below and paste its JSON and exit code.
review evaluator nothing Re-run the check yourself; re-fetch and spot-check at least 3 claims (every retirement, too); judge the durability test; last line VERDICT: PASS or VERDICT: FAIL.
check any nothing wicked-garden run scripts/learn/check.py --repo . [--slug <slug>]
index human or daemon only estate knowledge wicked-garden run scripts/learn/index.py --repo <default-branch checkout> after the PR merged. It refuses inside a governed run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 16d ago First seen · 105 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A fb627451f0f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wicked-garden-learn is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 250 tokens to every session and 1,774 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-12.

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