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---
name: change-quiz
description: Use after a session to review what changed before merging.
version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
author: Neeeophytee (original), Skill Foundry (packaged)
platforms:
- linux
- macos
- windows
metadata:
hermes:
tags:
- code-review
- change-management
- quiz
related_skills:
- finding-unknowns
- implementation-notes
- code-review
---
# 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
- Do not silently pass a quiz that was barely passed. If the user got 5/8 but the misses were on critical interactions, that is a fail.
- Keep quiz language neutral and factual. The purpose is understanding, not shaming.
- If the session produced no meaningful changes (e.g., research-only), say so — don't fabricate a quiz.