plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "scribe",
   "description": "Scribe for Claude Code: connects the scribe MCP server, adds the hooks that deliver live project state and relevant records at the right moment, ships the shared client-neutral Scribe skills (using-scribe, writing-plans, reporting-back, systematic-debugging, verification, brainstorming, reusing-code, shape-accounting), and syncs your saved Scribe Processes as skills (/scribe:sync).",
-  "version": "2026.09.19.1614",
+  "version": "2026.09.20.0317",
   "author": {
     "name": "Bryan Van Deusen"
   },

plugin/skills/using-scribe/SKILL.md

@@ -110,15 +110,27 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
    silently, because it sometimes answers that what you are holding was never
    a rule — and routing an observation is not losing it.
 
-   **A preference is the one record you keep current yourself.** When the
-   operator corrects you, or the preference on file no longer matches how they
-   actually want something done, `update_preference` — that is expected, not a
-   liberty, and updating one mid-work is the normal case rather than an
-   interruption of it. It wants the task or note that taught the change. Say in the
-   same turn that you did it, so they can disagree while it is in front of
-   them. A rule waits for the operator instead: `create_rule` proposes and
-   asks. If what you learned is that something MUST be done a certain way,
-   that is a rule to propose, not a preference to harden in place.
+   **A preference is yours to keep current.** When the operator corrects you,
+   or the preference on file no longer matches how they actually want
+   something done, `update_preference` — that is expected, not a liberty, and
+   updating one mid-work is the normal case rather than an interruption of it.
+   It wants the task or note that taught the change. Say in the same turn that
+   you did it, so they can disagree while it is in front of them. A rule waits
+   for the operator instead: `create_rule` proposes and asks. If what you
+   learned is that something MUST be done a certain way, that is a rule to
+   propose, not a preference to harden in place.
+
+   **A lesson grows each time it proves itself.** When one arrives and the
+   situation it names is the one you are actually in, you are the single
+   reader placed to tell whether its trigger is keyed right and whether its
+   claim covers what you are seeing. `update_lesson` takes what you now know:
+   another incident added to what taught it, the claim stated more exactly,
+   or — the edit worth most — a trigger re-keyed to the situation that really
+   fired. A lesson nobody reaches is seldom wrong; far more often it is
+   waiting in a situation nobody is in. One claim that has met the same
+   failure four times is worth more than four claims that each met it once,
+   so when a near-duplicate create hands back an existing id, that is the
+   record to grow.
 
    **Preferences shape how work is done, never what gets recorded.** They
    govern your conduct — how you report, how carefully you pace, which form

src/scribe/mcp/tools/lessons.py

@@ -178,7 +178,17 @@ async def create_lesson(
 
 
 async def get_lesson(lesson_id: int) -> dict:
-    """Fetch one lesson by id, with its trigger and sources read back out."""
+    """Fetch one lesson by id, with its trigger and sources read back out.
+
+    IF THIS LESSON JUST PROVED ITSELF, IT IS WORTH MORE THAN IT SAYS. You are
+    reading it inside the situation it names, which makes you the one reader
+    who can tell whether its trigger is keyed to what actually fired and
+    whether its claim covers what you are seeing. `update_lesson` takes
+    another incident into `learned_from`, a claim stated more exactly, or a
+    re-keyed trigger — and the trigger is the edit that pays most, because a
+    lesson keyed to a situation nobody is in looks exactly like one nobody
+    needed.
+    """
     uid = current_user_id()
     note = await lessons_svc.get_lesson(uid, lesson_id)
     if note is None:

tests/test_guidance_ownership.py

@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ TOPICS: tuple[Topic, ...] = (
           "an empty session is not evidence of an empty rulebook",
           index=('content_type="rule"', "nothing matched")),
     Topic("rules bind, preferences guide and are kept current", U, ("preference", "update_preference"),
-          "a preference is the one record you keep current yourself", index=("preferences guide",)),
+          "updating one mid-work is the normal case rather than an interruption of it",
+          index=("preferences guide",)),
     Topic("kind is force: a rule binds, a preference guides, a lesson informs", U,
           ("lesson", "costs time", "costs consistency"),
           "what happens if someone doesn't do this",
@@ -129,6 +130,14 @@ TOPICS: tuple[Topic, ...] = (
           # mis-routing #3733 recorded happens, and the caller there has not
           # necessarily read the skill.
           shared_with=("docstrings",)),
+    Topic("a lesson grows each time it proves itself", U,
+          ("update_lesson", "re-keyed", "grows each time"),
+          "one claim that has met the same failure four times is worth more "
+          "than four claims that each met it once",
+          # No index marker. The index names session-START reflexes, and this
+          # one fires mid-work, the moment a lesson arrives in a situation it
+          # actually names. `lessons inform` already points at the kind.
+          shared_with=("docstrings",)),
     Topic("preferences shape how work is done, never what is recorded", U,
           ("never what gets recorded",),
           "a preference never makes a task into a note"),