A mistake you don't examine is one you'll make again; a mistake you turn into a rule never costs you twice. This does the turning: a short, honest, blame-free autopsy of what went wrong, the real root cause underneath the obvious one, and the specific rule or trigger that stops the repeat — captured as a one-line entry for a growing collection. Over time, your failure museum becomes your hardest-won operating manual.
My Failure Museum is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the education-learning sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/my-failure-museum/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked help me learn from this mistake, I keep making the same error, capture this lesson, or turn this failure into something useful. Produces an honest, blame-free autopsy of what happened, the real root cause (not the surface one), the specific rule or trigger that prevents a repeat, and a one-line entry for your growing 'failure museum' — because unexamined mistakes repeat and examined ones compound into wisdom.
The My Failure Museum Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 178,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/my-failure-museum curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/my-failure-museum/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/my-failure-museum/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/my-failure-museum/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/my-failure-museum/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\my-failure-museum\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/my-failure-museum/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. My Failure Museum is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{my-failure-museum-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {My Failure Museum [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/my-failure-museum/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-07 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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