Check Your Understanding: Skills

Answer from memory first, then check the key. Score one point per question. A score of 4 out of 5 passes. Below that, reread the lessons listed under the key.

Questions

• 1. What does the description of a skill do?
• 2. Name the three loading levels.
• 3. What should a skill do when information is missing?
• 4. What is an injection test?
• 5. Why read every bundled script in a skill from a stranger?

Answer Key

• 1. The agent reads it to decide whether to load the skill, so it says what the skill does and when to use it.
• 2. Metadata always loaded, the body of SKILL.md when the skill matches, and bundled files read only when needed.
• 3. Ask for it or reply NEEDS REVIEW. It shouldn't guess.
• 4. A test input whose text tries to give the agent an order. The safe result is that the order is not followed.
• 5. A script can run actions on your machine or account, so you must know what it does first.

Where to Reread

• What a Skill Is: The SKILL.md Format
• Your First Skill in Ten Minutes
• Write Your First Skill, Step by Step
• Testing and Improving a Skill
• Test the Skill: Six Inputs and a Poisoned Email