Learn

Learn is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by pedrohcgs in claude-code-my-workflow.

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Install Learn

Copy Learn 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/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/main/.claude/skills/learn ~/.claude/skills/learn

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/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/learn/SKILL.md in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/learn
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Learn does

Learn extracts reusable knowledge from the current session into a persistent skill. Use it when you discover something non-obvious, create a workaround, or develop a multi-step workflow that future sessions would benefit from.

Learn is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Learn comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, causal-inference, claude-code, claude-code-skills and econometrics.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/learn — Skill Extraction Workflow

Extract non-obvious discoveries into reusable skills that persist across sessions.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke /learn when you encounter:

Non-obvious debugging — Investigation that took significant effort, not in docs
Misleading errors — Error message was wrong, found the real cause
Workarounds — Found a limitation with a creative solution
Tool integration — Undocumented API usage or configuration
Trial-and-error — Multiple attempts before success
Repeatable workflows — Multi-step task you'd do again
User-facing automation — Reports, checks, or processes users will request

Workflow Phases

PHASE 1: Evaluate (Self-Assessment)

Before creating a skill, answer these questions:

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

Commands Learn provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/learn

Frequently asked about Learn

What else does pedrohcgs publish alongside Learn?
Learn is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Reproducibility, Capture Environment and Checkpoint. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Learn does, and is maintained by pedrohcgs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow page.
How does Learn compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Learn ranks #985 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 Learn against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.