Beginners Mind — Development skill for Claude Code
Approach code with fresh curiosity and learning mindset.
How to install Beginners Mind
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/dgriffith-bad-daves-robot-army-beginners-mind/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dgriffith-bad-daves-robot-army-beginners-mind && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgriffith/bad-daves-robot-army/HEAD/commands/beginners-mind.md -o ~/.claude/skills/dgriffith-bad-daves-robot-army-beginners-mind/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Beginners Mind does
name: beginners-mind description: Approach code with fresh curiosity and learning mindset pattern: /beginners-mind(?:\s+(.+))?
Using @agent-junior-developer approach the specified topic or code area with genuine curiosity and a learning mindset. Generate a thoughtful list of questions to explore and understand the topic deeply, saving the output to the reports directory.
Input Parsing
The user invoked: /beginners-mind {topic_or_code_area}
Examples:
- `/beginners-mind authentication
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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