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Learn History

openshift/learn-history

Analyze all past sessions for this project and extract knowledge worth persisting to AGENTS.md, .claude/agents/, or memory. Deep analysis of full session history.

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on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/openshift/oc --skill learn-history

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

Analyze the full session history for this project to extract knowledge worth persisting.

Session logs location

Session logs are JSONL files at the project config path. Find them with:

ls -lhS ~/.claude/projects/$(echo "$PWD" | tr '/' '-')/*.jsonl

Each line is a JSON object with a type field (user for user messages, others for assistant responses). User messages have .message.content with the prompt text.

Process

  • Read the current state of AGENTS.md, .claude/agents/*.md, and the memory index for this project at ~/.claude/projects/$(echo "$PWD" | tr '/' '-')/memory/MEMORY.md (skip if absent)
  • List all session files, sorted by size (larger sessions have more content worth mining)
  • For each session, extract user messages and assistant text responses (skip tool results — they're too large). Focus on:
  • User corrections and redirections
  • Patterns that were discovered after expensive exploration
  • Knowledge that was needed repeatedly across sessions
  • Cross-reference findings against what's already documented to avoid duplicates
  • Group findings by destination:
  • AGENTS.md — brief conventions/rules (1-2 lines each)
  • .claude/agents/*.md — agent-specific knowledge
  • Memory — user preferences, project context, feedback
  • Nowhere — already documented or too specific to recur
  • Present a summary of all proposed changes for approval. Do NOT write anything until approved.

Guidelines

  • Prioritize findings that recur across multiple sessions — those have the highest ROI
  • Keep AGENTS.md entries concise. If something needs more than 2 lines, it probably doesn't belong there.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take openshift/learn-history from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.