Quiz: What Skills and Agents Actually Are

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Module 1 · Quiz

Check Your Understanding

Answer all questions correctly to complete this module.

Check Your Understanding

Answer all questions correctly to complete this module.

1. What is the fundamental difference between a skill and an agent in Claude Code?

Skills are written in YAML while agents are in JavaScript Skills are reusable instruction sets while agents are skills with tool access that can take action Skills run locally while agents run in the cloud Skills are for coding tasks while agents are for writing tasks

2. What does the composability insight refer to?

Skills can be combined into a single large file Agents can compose music and creative content Small, composable units that each do one thing well combine to produce complex results All skills must be written in a composable language

3. Why does the chapter advise that not everything should be an agent?

Agents are too expensive to run Agents have tool access meaning they can take action — skills without tools are cheaper and harder to misuse Agents require special hardware Agents can only be invoked by other agents

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