learning-science SKILL.md skillA
learning-science from muvon/octomind-tap is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add muvon/octomind-tap/learning-science@git:20261013.a69e0bbPins git:20261013.a69e0bb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- muvon/octomind-tap
- Path
skills/learning-science/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261013.a69e0bb, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 25, 2026
- Size
- 10,182 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- Apache-2.0
The small set of evidence-based study techniques that actually work: retrieval practice, successive relearning, spacing, interleaving, self-explanation, and worked examples, plus how to use AI tutors without outsourcing the thinking, and the popular habits (rereading, highlighting, cramming, learning styles) that only feel productive. Activate when helping someone study, memorize, prepare for a test, or learn a skill, or when they ask how to learn something faster.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## Overview This skill encodes the techniques that cognitive science shows actually make learning stick and transfer, and names the popular study habits that only produce an illusion of competence. Activate it whenever you are helping someone study, memorize, prepare for a test, or learn a skill — and especially when they reach for rereading, highlighting, or cramming. The point is to replace comfortable-but-useless habits with effortful methods that work. ## Mental model Performance is not learning. Fluent, comfortable study (rereading a chapter, watching a solution) raises in-the-moment performance and feels productive, but it builds little durable memory. The methods that work feel harder and slower because effortful retrieval is the mechanism — Bjork calls these "desirable difficulties." So the governing rule is counterintuitive: if studying feels easy and smooth, it is probably not working; if it feels effortful and a little error-prone, it probably is. Learners systematically mispredict this, which is why they default to the weak methods. ## Rules ### Lead with retrieval, not review …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add muvon/octomind-tap/learning-science@sha256:cf3aa4f29b8cc379The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.a69e0bb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 25, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 55 days.
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| git:20261013.a69e0bb latest | 2026-10-13 | a69e0bb | 10,182 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.40e721d | 2026-09-18 | 40e721d | 6,656 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260625.6aea9ff | 2026-06-25 | 6aea9ff | 6,661 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10182 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
muvon/octomind-tap · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lwyrteeawsd3nudj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=muvon/octomind-tap/learning-science GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cf3aa4f29b8cc379b4e0f536e21f80c26560e877b77df71f967e139d518d6800
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