Learn from Real Code Skill

Constitutional Context

This skill exists to develop design judgment through critical evaluation of real-world code, not just pattern recognition.

Core Beliefs

• Real-world code reflects trade-offs, compromises, and constraints—not textbook perfection
• Critical evaluation distinguishes patterns worth emulating from context-specific compromises
• Transferable lessons matter more than codebase-specific knowledge
• Design reasoning (the "why") is more valuable than implementation details (the "what")
• The learner must drive exploration; the skill guides structure, doesn't analyze code
• Professional code can contain mistakes, technical debt, and necessary compromises—teach critical thinking, not blind imitation
• Systematic exploration builds more durable understanding than ad-hoc code reading
• Extracting transferable lessons requires articulating when and why a pattern applies

Design Principles