# change-quiz

This skill turns a work session into a change report and a merge quiz. Use it when a large diff needs review or you want to check what the change really affects.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 355
- Author: Neeeophytee
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/change-quiz/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-28
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/change-quiz

## What it does

change-quiz builds a four-part report: the original problem, changes grouped by intent, affected code paths, and the mental-model updates a maintainer should retain. It covers behavior that the diff may not show, including how the new code interacts with existing paths.

The report is followed by 5 to 8 questions about deviations, edge cases, and interaction effects. Some ask for recall; others ask the user to predict what will happen. For a long session, the report can be delivered as one self-contained HTML page with the quiz at the bottom.

The skill grades one round at a time. Each wrong answer gets the correct explanation and a diagnosis: a gap in the user’s model or a change that is too clever. After two failed rounds, it recommends simplifying or splitting the change instead of continuing to quiz.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --skill change-quiz -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/change-quiz/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/change-quiz/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --skill change-quiz -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/change-quiz/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --skill change-quiz -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/change-quiz/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills change-quiz
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/change-quiz/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --skill change-quiz -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --path skills/change-quiz
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/change-quiz/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --skill change-quiz -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/change-quiz/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- summarize what a coding session changed
- trace new behavior through existing code paths
- test maintainer understanding before a merge
- explain mistakes in edge-case predictions
- decide whether a change should be split

## Example prompts
- Review this session, explain what changed, and prepare the merge quiz.
- Turn this large change into a four-part report, then test me with 5 to 8 questions.
- Ask me about edge cases and interaction effects, grade one round at a time, and explain every miss.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: change-quiz
description: After a working session, produce a report on what changed plus a quiz the user must pass before merging. Use when the user asks "what did we actually do," wants to review a large change, or invokes a quiz before merge.
---

# Change quiz

After a long session the agent has often done more than the user realizes, and a diff only shows surface. Behavior lives in how the change interacts with existing code paths. The user should merge only what they can pass a quiz on.

## Steps

1. Build the report first, in four short sections:
   - **Context** — what problem this session set out to solve.
   - **What changed** — grouped by intent (feature, fix, refactor), not by file.
   - **How it interacts** — the existing code paths the change touches, and what now behaves differently even in files the diff doesn't show.
   - **Intuition** — the 2-3 mental-model updates the user should walk away with ("retries are now idempotent because X").
2. For long sessions, offer the report as a single self-contained HTML page with the quiz at the bottom — it reads better than a wall of markdown.
3. Then the quiz: 5-8 questions targeting what would bite an unaware maintainer.
   - Mix recall ("what happens to in-flight jobs during deploy now?") with prediction ("if someone calls X with a stale token, what do they see?").
   - Weight questions toward deviations, edge cases, and interaction effects — not trivia about names.
4. Grade honestly, one round at a time. For each miss, explain the right answer AND flag it: a miss is either a gap in the user's model or a sign the change is too clever — say which.
5. Pass = merge-ready. Fail = point back to the specific report sections to reread, then offer a fresh variant quiz. Do not soften the bar; the whole point is that unread changes don't ship.

## Guardrails

- The quiz covers the change and its blast radius, not general knowledge.
- If the user can't pass after two rounds, the recommendation is to simplify the change or split it, not to keep quizzing.
- Never mark the user correct out of politeness. A false pass defeats the skill.
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