learning-something-new

learning-something-new is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhuntlabs/wizard. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,005 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured learning plan for picking up a new topic, tool, language, framework, or skill. It starts with a small practical project and adds a short list of learning sources and progress checkpoints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan onboarding, learn a new technology, catch up before a conversation, or build a hobby skill. It helps define what to make first, what to study, and when to adjust the plan.
Why use it?
It turns a vague goal such as “learn this framework” into a clear first result, so you can tell whether you are making useful progress or have become stuck.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the wizard plugin — 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook 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/redhuntlabs/wizard/learning-something-new
Any agent
npx skills add redhuntlabs/wizard --skill learning-something-new
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install wizard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,005 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 $0.00028 $0.01005
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 3d ago against content hash cbae09a6d47a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

learning-something-new 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 3d 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.

spells/thinking/learning-something-new/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Learning Something New

What this does

Turns "I want to learn X" into a structured plan: a concrete first project, a small number of high-signal sources, and a checkpoint to detect when you've stalled.

When to use

  • Picking up a new tool, language, framework, or domain
  • Onboarding to a new role or team
  • Catching up on a topic for an upcoming conversation
  • Hobby learning (instrument, sport, craft)

What you bring (Inputs)

  • The thing you want to learn
  • Why you want to learn it (the use case — concrete, not "to be smarter")
  • Time available per week
  • Your existing knowledge level (none / some / experienced in adjacent)

What you get (Output)

A learning plan: first useful project, source list (max 5), checkpoints with a rescue plan if stalled.

How it works (Steps)

This is a workflow.

Stages

Stage 1: Define the first useful output

What's the smallest thing you could make / do / decide that would prove you've learned the basics? This is your first project.

Examples: "Deploy a hello-world service in this framework," "Hold a 5-minute conversation in this language," "Diagnose a basic bug in this codebase," "Bake a loaf of sourdough."

Stage 2: Pick 2-3 starter sources

Not 12. Two to three high-quality sources for the basics, picked from a known canonical reference (official docs, top-recommended book, top course). Resist the urge to bookmark 20 things.

Stage 3: Schedule the first sprint

When are you doing this in the next 7 days? Block calendar time. Without a block, the plan is wishful thinking.

Stage 4: Set checkpoints

After 1 week, you should have completed the first useful output. After 4 weeks, you should be able to do a slightly harder version.

If you've not hit checkpoint 1, run the rescue plan.

Stage 5: Rescue plan (when stalled)

Common causes of stall (with fixes):

  • Too many sources: cut to 1
  • Too big a first project: shrink it (hello-world, then a step up)
  • No application: the gap from "learning" to "doing" is widening; force a doing-mode session

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 3d ago First seen · 111 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A cbae09a6d47a

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learning-something-new is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,005 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 2026-08-31.