learn-toolkit

Three Steps for Learning and Visualization with Claude Code

A 3-skill toolkit for learning new technologies without leaving your workflow. Escalate from quick terminal diagrams, through interactive browser exploration, to full AI-generated learning packages.

Install

Option A: Plugin install (recommended)

/plugin marketplace add yodem/learn-toolkit
/plugin install learn-toolkit@learn-toolkit-marketplace

This installs all 3 skills, configures MCP servers (via env vars), and handles updates automatically.

Then add your API keys to ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc):

export TAVILY_API_KEY="your-key-here"   # https://tavily.com (free)
export EXA_API_KEY="your-key-here"      # https://exa.ai

Restart Claude Code. Done.

/learn-toolkit:visualize and /learn-toolkit:playground work immediately — no API keys needed. Keys are only required for /learn-toolkit:learn's search backends.

Option B: Paste repo URL

Paste this URL into Claude Code and it reads CLAUDE.md to walk you through setup:

https://github.com/yodem/learn-toolkit

Also works with Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI tools that read CLAUDE.md.

Option C: Manual setup

# All 3 skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/learn/references ~/.claude/skills/visualize ~/.claude/skills/playground
cp plugins/learn-toolkit/skills/learn/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/learn/SKILL.md
cp plugins/learn-toolkit/skills/learn/references/*.md ~/.claude/skills/learn/references/
cp plugins/learn-toolkit/skills/visualize/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/visualize/SKILL.md
cp plugins/learn-toolkit/skills/playground/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/playground/SKILL.md

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=${TAVILY_API_KEY}"
    },
    "exa": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp?exaApiKey=${EXA_API_KEY}&tools=web_search_exa,web_search_advanced_exa,get_code_context_exa,crawling_exa,company_research_exa,people_search_exa,deep_researcher_start,deep_researcher_check"
    }
  }
}

export TAVILY_API_KEY="tvly-your-key-here"
export EXA_API_KEY="your-exa-key-here"

# See https://github.com/nicholasgriffintn/notebooklm-mcp
nlm login

/exit
claude

Tavily Agent Skills (recommended)

Install Tavily's agent skills to give /learn-toolkit:learn a CLI-based fallback and add standalone search/extract/crawl/research capabilities:

npx skills add tavily-ai/skills --yes
curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bash
tvly login    # opens browser for OAuth, or: tvly login --api-key tvly-YOUR_KEY

This installs 7 skills as slash commands:

Workflow escalation: search → extract → map → crawl → research

Integration with /learn-toolkit:learn: The learn workflow auto-detects Tavily CLI alongside the MCP server. If MCP is available, it uses MCP for search and CLI skills for extract/crawl. If only the CLI is installed, skills handle all Tavily operations. Either path provides full Tavily coverage.

The Three Skills

Step 1: /learn-toolkit:visualize — ASCII Diagrams in Terminal