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Add a new lesson learned to shared rules and sync to context files.

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Add Lesson Skill

Add a new lesson learned to the shared rules.

Overview

When you discover a bug, mistake, or useful pattern, use this skill to document it so all agents learn from it.

Usage

/add-lesson

Prerequisites

  • Access to shared-rules/ and permission to run scripts/sync-rules.py.

Lesson Template

### YYYY-MM-DD - Brief Title

- **Issue**: What went wrong or was discovered
- **Root Cause**: Why it happened
- **Fix**: How it was fixed
- **Prevention**: Rule or check to prevent recurrence
- **Applies To**: all | claude | cursor | gemini
- **Files Changed**: List of affected files

Process

  1. Gather information:

    • What was the issue?
    • What caused it?
    • How was it fixed?
    • How can we prevent it?

  2. Add to lessons file:

    • Open shared-rules/lessons-learned.md
    • Add new entry at TOP of "Recent Lessons" section
    • Use the template format

  3. Run sync:

    python scripts/sync-rules.py

  4. Verify propagation:

    • Check CLAUDE.md updated
    • Check timestamp

Example

### 2026-01-22 - Task Tool Token Efficiency

- **Issue**: Spawning Claude workers via subprocess was expensive (~13k tokens overhead)
- **Root Cause**: Full context duplication to each subprocess
- **Fix**: Use native Task tool with context filtering
- **Prevention**: Always prefer Task tool over subprocess for Claude workers
- **Applies To**: claude
- **Files Changed**:
  - `.claude/skills/implement-task/SKILL.md`
  - `CLAUDE.md`

Categories

Lessons should be categorized by:

  • all - Applies to all agents
  • claude - Claude-specific
  • cursor - Cursor-specific
  • gemini - Gemini-specific

Archiving

After 30 days or when list gets long:

  • Move old lessons to "Archived Lessons" section
  • Keep for historical reference

Outputs

  • Updated shared-rules/ content and synced context files (e.g. CLAUDE.md).

Error Handling

  • If sync fails, do not proceed; resolve and rerun scripts/sync-rules.py.
  • If lesson template is incomplete, request the missing fields before adding.

Related Skills

  • /sync-rules - Sync shared rules into context files