iterate-lessons-log

iterate-lessons-log is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (812 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured record of important lessons from projects, incidents, failures, or recurring patterns. It preserves knowledge so future teams can use it even if the original people are gone.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for recording reusable lessons after a project, outage, post-mortem, or significant discovery.
Why use it?
Useful experience is easily lost in meeting notes or in the memories of individual team members. A durable entry makes those lessons available for later work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for recording reusable lessons after a project, outage, post-mortem, or significant discovery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/iterate-lessons-log
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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill iterate-lessons-log
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 812 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
  • Socket pass 28 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 27 Apr 2026
  • 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 $0.00064 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash be066e6bcc8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iterate-lessons-log 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.

skills/iterate-lessons-log/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lessons Log

A lessons log entry captures significant learning from projects, incidents, or experiences in a format that's useful to future teams who weren't there. Unlike retrospectives (which focus on team improvement), lessons logs focus on organizational knowledge that transcends individual teams.patterns, anti-patterns, and hard-won wisdom.

When to Use

  • After completing a significant project or initiative
  • Following a major incident, outage, or failure
  • When you realize something important that others should know
  • After discovering a pattern that keeps recurring
  • When experienced team members leave (capture their knowledge)
  • During post-mortems to preserve learnings

When NOT to Use

  • You are facilitating the team ceremony itself -> use iterate-retrospective; this skill banks the durable entry that outlives it
  • You are deciding whether to change direction based on results -> use iterate-pivot-decision
  • The learning is an experiment readout -> use measure-experiment-results first, then bank the transferable lesson here
  • You are updating stakeholders on what was learned -> use foundation-stakeholder-update

Instructions

When asked to create a lessons log entry, follow these steps:

  1. Choose a Descriptive Title Write a title that someone searching for this topic would find. Include keywords that describe the situation and the learning. Avoid generic titles like "Project X lessons."

  2. Provide Context Explain the situation fully enough that someone who wasn't there can understand it. Include the project, timeline, team, and any relevant constraints. Future readers need this context to assess applicability.

  3. Describe What Happened Write a factual account of what occurred. Be specific about actions taken, decisions made, and outcomes observed. Avoid blame.focus on events and systems.

  4. Extract the Lesson Articulate what you learned clearly. The lesson should be actionable.something others can apply. Distinguish between what you observed and your interpretation of why it matters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A be066e6bcc8c

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iterate-lessons-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (663 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 812 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.