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Learn — Capture and Route Project Knowledge

Record corrections, insights, and patterns. Route them to the correct instruction file. Apply kaizen principles to keep instructions lean and effective.

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS	Action
"<correction text>"	Route correction to appropriate instruction file
review	Show pending learnings and their frequency
promote	Promote high-frequency learnings (3+ occurrences) to instruction files
audit	Check for stale, contradictory, or duplicate learnings
Empty	Display usage summary

References

File	Purpose
references/routing-rules.md	Decision tree for where to route instruction changes
references/kaizen-principles.md	Error-proofing patterns, when to use hooks vs prose vs rules

Routing Protocol

Route proposed updates to the correct target:

Scope	Target
Cross-project conventions	instructions/global.md
Language-specific tooling	Convention skill (python-conventions, etc.)
Orchestration/parallelism	orchestrator skill body
Project-specific standards	Project's AGENTS.md
File-scoped enforcement	.claude/rules/<topic>.md
Skill behavior	The skill's own SKILL.md

Routing Decision Steps

1. Determine the scope: does this apply to all projects or just one?
2. If cross-project, does it relate to a specific language or tool?
3. If language-specific, route to the corresponding convention skill
4. If general, route to instructions/global.md
5. If project-only, route to the project's AGENTS.md
6. If file-scoped enforcement only, create a .claude/rules/ entry

Kaizen Principles

1. Incremental > revolutionary — Smallest viable change, verify before next
2. Poka-yoke — Prefer hooks/tooling over prose instructions (error-proof by design)
3. Standards work — Follow existing patterns, document what works
4. JIT — Build only what is needed, optimize when measured

Verification Checklist

1. Verify against actual practice — confirm the pattern reflects real usage
2. Check for contradictions with existing instructions
3. Assess token impact — keep always-loaded content minimal
4. Get user approval — never modify instruction files without consent
5. Test the change — run wagents validate after any instruction file edit

Critical Rules

1. Never modify instruction files without explicit user approval
2. Require 3+ corrections across 2+ sessions before promoting
3. Check for contradictions with existing instructions
4. Route to narrowest applicable scope (rule before skill, skill before global)
5. Keep always-loaded content under token budget
6. Run wagents validate after every instruction file modification
7. Prefer hooks/rules over prose (poka-yoke principle)

Canonical Terms

• instruction file — any file that provides agent instructions (global.md, AGENTS.md, SKILL.md)
• routing — the process of choosing the correct target file for a change
• correction pattern — a repeated fix that indicates a missing or wrong instruction
• token budget — the limit on always-loaded instruction content
• scope — cross-project, language-specific, orchestration, project-specific, or file-scoped