Continual Learning

by microsoft

Continual Learning is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in skills.

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Install Continual Learning

Copy Continual Learning into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/skills/continual-learning ~/.claude/skills/continual-learning

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .github/skills/continual-learning/SKILL.md in microsoft/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/continual-learning
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Continual Learning does

Continual Learning adds hooks, two-tier memory (global and local), and reflection patterns to AI coding agents so they retain knowledge between sessions. Use it when setting up learning infrastructure for agents.

Continual Learning is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Continual Learning comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, azure, foundry and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Continual Learning for AI Coding Agents

Your agent forgets everything between sessions. Continual learning fixes that.

The Loop

Experience → Capture → Reflect → Persist → Apply
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Quick Start

Install the hook (one step):

cp -r hooks/continual-learning .github/hooks/

Auto-initializes on first session. No config needed.

Two-Tier Memory

Global (~/.copilot/learnings.db) — follows you across all projects:

Tool patterns (which tools fail, which work)
Cross-project conventions
General coding preferences

Local (.copilot-memory/learnings.db) — stays with this repo:

Project-specific conventions
Common mistakes for this codebase
Team preferences

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Continual Learning

What else does microsoft publish alongside Continual Learning?
Continual Learning is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Application Insights Web, Azure AI Agents Persistent .NET and Azure AI Document Intelligence .NET. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Continual Learning does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/skills page.
How does Continual Learning compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Continual Learning ranks #710 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Continual Learning against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.