Book Study

This is a structured reading coach that treats book study like a skill to be mastered, not just consumed. It maintains a local wiki of your reading progress with concept maps, mastery tracking, and spaced repetition reviews. The workflow is deliberate: pre-reading questions before each chapter, Socratic testing after you ingest content (no credit for just saying "got it"), and required practice phases where you apply concepts to real scenarios. It scores understanding on a four-point rubric covering accuracy, explanation, application, and discrimination. The interleaving during tests is smart, mixing old concepts with new ones without announcing it. If you tend to skim books and forget everything two weeks later, this forces actual retention. The wiki structure is Obsidian-compatible if you want to browse your knowledge base later.

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last updated: Jul 14, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add sanyuan0704/code-review-expert --skill book-study --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Book Study — Reading Coach

Guide users through books systematically. Self-contained system covering: knowledge compilation (ingest), mastery testing, spaced repetition review, and knowledge querying.

IRON LAW: Understanding is proven by explanation + example + application. Never mark a concept as mastered just because the user says "got it."

Usage

/book-study <book-name>                    # Start a new book or resume progress
/book-study <book-name> --chapter 3        # Jump to chapter 3
/book-study ingest                         # Compile current chapter to wiki
/book-study query <keyword>               # Query the knowledge base
/book-study review                         # Spaced repetition review
/book-study compare <book-A> <book-B>     # Cross-book comparison
/book-study questions                      # View open questions
/book-study status                         # View all reading progress