How to use
- Copy the installation command and review the source package before installing it in your own agent environment.
- Check the source document for required tools, credentials and supported hosts.
- Describe your input and desired deliverable; review the output against the source material.
npx skills add https://github.com/bostonaholic/skills --skill learning-from-mistakesBefore you start
- Installation does not include a model subscription, API allowance or permission to access your files.
- Repository stars and installation counts describe activity, not an independent quality or security test.
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Learn From Mistake
Turn the most recent mistake or correction in the conversation into a rule in the instructions file the agent reads, so the lesson persists across sessions. If no correction is clear, ask which one to codify.
- The rule: one or two imperative sentences ("Do X", "Never Y"), specific
enough to change behavior. A platitude ("be careful with tests") fails.
- Target file:
- Project lessons (this codebase, its conventions or tooling) go in the
instructions file at the root from git rev-parse --show-toplevel: CLAUDE.md in Claude Code, AGENTS.md in Codex. Outside a repository, ask where to write.
- Lessons that apply across projects go in
~/.claude/CLAUDE.mdin Claude
Code or ~/.codex/AGENTS.md in Codex. In another host, ask which file it reads.
- If the file is a symlink, edit the file it resolves to. If it only imports
another file (a line such as @AGENTS.md), edit the imported file.
- Overlap: if the rule already exists, stop and say where. If a related
rule exists, refine it instead of adding a duplicate.
- Approval: show the rule (or the old and new text of a refined rule), the
file path, and the section: an existing section that fits, or else a new ## Learned Rules section. Never propose any other new heading. Write nothing until the user approves.
