Quiz: What Skills Are and Why They Matter

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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 problem do skills solve that copy-pasting prompts does not?

Skills run faster Skills are versioned, organised, and discoverable — they compose, evolve, and relate to project context Skills use less API tokens Skills can only be invoked by specific users

2. What signal indicates a workflow pattern should become a skill?

When it takes more than 5 minutes When you find yourself doing the same thing across sessions with the same instructions When Claude Code suggests creating a skill When the workflow involves more than three tools

3. What does 'user-invocable: true' do in a skill's frontmatter?

Makes the skill run at session start Allows direct invocation with a slash command and appears in autocomplete Restricts the skill to the current user only Makes the skill visible in the Obsidian sidebar

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