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Turn a mistake into a reusable lesson — a short, unsentimental 'here's what happened and the rule so it doesn't happen again' entry you can actually keep. 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.

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# My Failure Museum

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.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The honest autopsy** — what actually happened, blame-free (self-flagellation teaches nothing; analysis does)
- **The real root cause** — the underlying reason, not the surface one ("I was busy" → "I don't build in buffer time")
- **The prevention rule** — a specific, actionable rule or trigger that would have caught it, and will next time
- **The one-line museum entry** — a compact, keepable lesson to add to your collection
- **A pattern check** — whether this is a one-off or part of a recurring theme worth a bigger fix

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