quick

A one-shot question-answering workflow that combines web research with notes from a personal knowledge vault, then checks sources before saving noteworthy answers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer a direct question or infer one from the recent conversation, compare it with vault notes, research it online, and capture a new answer.
Why use it?
It avoids repeating research or overlooking what is already known. It also keeps captured answers separate from spoken answers until they are verified.

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/robinslange/learning-loop/quick
Any agent
npx skills add robinslange/learning-loop --skill quick
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robinslange/learning-loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,682 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 $0.00063 $0.01682
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00841
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00168

Measured yesterday against content hash b1a96f92b028, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quick 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 yesterday.

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.

plugin/skills/quick/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quick: Fast Verified Answers

Overview

Answer a question quickly with web research, vault awareness, and source verification. One shot, no interactive rounds. Auto-captures noteworthy answers to the vault.

When to Use

  • /learning-loop:quick "how much have jaguar prices dropped recently?": direct question
  • /learning-loop:quick: infer question from conversation context

Process

Step 1: Parse the Question

If args provided: Use as the question.

If no args: Read recent conversation. Identify the question being discussed. If no clear question, ask the user with AskUserQuestion.

Step 2: Parallel Research

Spawn both subagents in the same turn (a single message with two Agent tool calls):

Vault Scout (discovery-vault-scout):

Search the vault for what the user already knows about this topic.

Topic: <question keywords>
Vault path: {{VAULT}}/
Angle: <the specific question being asked>

Return relevant notes with content, and identify gaps.

Researcher (discovery-researcher):

Answer this specific question with web research.

Topic: <the question>
Existing knowledge: (empty: vault results not available yet)

Focus on answering the question directly, not mapping the landscape.
Source-resolve any academic claims.
Return: direct answer, supporting evidence, sources with metadata, confidence level.

Step 3: Synthesize Answer

Merge vault-scout and researcher results into a direct answer.

Structure:

  • If vault has relevant notes, lead with what the user already knows and how the new info extends or updates it
  • If vault contradicts web findings, flag it explicitly: "Your note X says Y, but recent evidence shows Z"
  • If vault has nothing relevant, lead with the web findings
  • Keep it to 3-10 sentences. Cite sources inline.
  • End with confidence: high (multiple concordant sources), medium (single source or mixed), low (sparse evidence, flag uncertainty)

Tone: Conversational. Plain language. No hedging paragraphs: if uncertain, one line says so.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. yesterday First seen · 151 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A b1a96f92b028

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quick is a skill published in the GitHub repository robinslange/learning-loop (11 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,682 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 2026-08-30.

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