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---
name: learn
description: "Manually record an insight, correction, preference, or rule that the agent should remember for future tasks."
version: "1.0.0"
metadata:
  author: CoWork OS Contributors <info@coworkosapp.com>
---

# Learn

## Purpose

Manually record an insight, correction, preference, or rule that the agent should remember for future tasks.

## Routing

- Use when: Use when the user explicitly wants to teach the agent something, record a preference, save a correction, or store a rule for future tasks.
- Do not use when: Don't use for general conversation, one-time instructions that don't need to be remembered, or when the user is just chatting.
- Outputs: Persisted learning in memory system and .cowork/MEMORY.md file.
- Success criteria: Learning is stored in memory and written to .cowork/MEMORY.md with confirmation to the user.

## Trigger Examples

### Positive

- Use the learn skill for this request.
- Help me with learn.
- Use when the user explicitly wants to teach the agent something, record a preference, save a correction, or store a rule for future tasks.
- Learn: provide an actionable result.

### Negative

- Don't use for general conversation, one-time instructions that don't need to be remembered, or when the user is just chatting.
- Do not use learn for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside learn scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

## Parameters

| Name     | Type   | Required | Description                                              |
| -------- | ------ | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| what     | string | Yes      | The insight, correction, preference, or rule to remember |
| category | select | No       | Type of learning                                         |

## Runtime Prompt

- Current runtime prompt length: 1153 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../learn.json`.