learn

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.