dev-learner

Agent Building

Meta-skill — extract reusable skills from the current conversation. Identifies patterns that appeared 3+ times and proposes them as new skills. Pairs with skill-creator builtin.

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Dev Learner

Derived from oh-my-claudecode (MIT, Yeachan Heo). Adapted for the EvoNexus Engineering Layer.

Meta-skill: scan the current conversation for patterns that appeared 3+ times and propose extracting them as reusable skills. The "self-improving workspace" feedback loop.

Use When

A long session involved repeated workflows that aren't yet skills
You want to formalize a pattern you keep manually invoking
Post-EPIC retrospective: what should have been a skill but wasn't?

Do Not Use When

Single-pattern conversation → no extraction value
The pattern is too specific to one project → keep as agent memory
The pattern is already a skill → just document it better

Workflow

Phase 1 — Pattern Detection

Scan the conversation for:

Repeated workflows — same sequence of agents called 3+ times
Repeated prompts — similar instructions issued repeatedly
Repeated outputs — same artifact format produced multiple times
Repeated handoffs — same agent pair invoked together repeatedly

Phase 2 — Extraction

For each detected pattern:

Name it (e.g., "PR review pipeline", "Debug investigation flow")
Describe the trigger
Document the steps
Identify the agents involved
Identify the inputs and outputs

Phase 3 — Proposal

Propose the new skill:

Name: suggested skill name (dev-{action} if engineering, {prefix}-{action} otherwise)
Trigger: when to invoke
Workflow: the steps
Pairs with: which agents/skills

Phase 4 — Creation (optional)

If user accepts, hand off to skill-creator (builtin) to actually generate the skill file.

Output

## Learner Report — {session topic}

### Patterns Detected
1. **{Pattern name}**
   - Occurrences: 4 times
   - Steps: ...
   - Suggested skill: `dev-{action}`

2. **{Pattern name}**
   - ...

### Skill Proposals
[Detailed proposal for each detected pattern]

### Recommendation
[Which to extract first, which to skip]

Pairs With

skill-creator (builtin) — to generate the actual skill file
create-agent (builtin) — if the pattern warrants a new agent instead
All 19 engineering agents (which patterns might be extracted from)

Anti-patterns

Over-extraction (every 2-occurrence sequence becomes a skill)
Under-extraction (missing genuine repeated patterns)
Naming conflicts (proposing names that collide with existing skills)