quiz-builder

quiz-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Canvas-LMS-MCP/canvas-teacher-mcp. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for creating or updating classic Canvas quizzes and their questions. It supports common question types such as multiple choice, true or false, essay, and fill-in-the-blank, as well as Git programming questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or revise a Canvas quiz, its questions, and its description; the quiz remains unpublished for the instructor to publish.
Why use it?
It gives quiz changes one consistent route and can update existing questions by name without creating duplicates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to build or revise a Canvas quiz, its questions, and its description; the quiz remains unpublished for the instructor to publish.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/canvas-lms-mcp/canvas-teacher-mcp/quiz-builder
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Canvas-LMS-MCP/canvas-teacher-mcp --skill quiz-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Canvas-LMS-MCP/canvas-teacher-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,815 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00104 $0.01815
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00181

Measured 12d ago against content hash 12963f5d8f4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quiz-builder scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/canvas_teacher_mcp/_data/skills/quiz-builder/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

quiz-builder — GLOBAL quiz-building methodology

Build or update a Canvas Classic quiz: its question items + the description summary. Idempotent — create a quiz's questions from nothing OR modify an existing quiz (questions matched by question_name). Pairs with the machinery quiz_builder.py (same dir) the way assignment-page-builder pairs with assignment_page_builder.py.

⛔ HARD RULE — the machinery is the ONLY path (gate, don't hand-roll)

  • ALL Canvas quiz API calls go through skills/quiz-builder/quiz_builder.py (co-located). NEVER write ad-hoc canvas_rest.get/post/put to /quizzes/... in a session — that is the recurring hand-roll bug (grade_nb_skill / Stage-B finalize). If a needed call is missing, ADD it to quiz_builder.py, never improvise. The entry is quiz_builder.make_quiz(base, token, course_id, quiz_id, questions, ...).
  • NEVER publishes. No published set — the instructor publishes.
  • Full payload always (question_type / points_possible / question_text / answers) — a missing field silently fails. make_quiz refreshes the STALE question_count/points_possible cache after changes, and reorders (the question endpoint ignores position). All per Access/Canvas.md.

Two parts

  1. Question items — built by TYPE (dispatch below), then upsert_questions (create-or-update by name).
  2. Description summarybuild_description_summary renders a student-facing table: Questions · Total points · Time limit · Attempts · Due (computed from the questions, since the quiz's own fields are stale until refresh). Add a short intro via intro_html.

Question dispatch — by type

Question type How Builder
MCQ / True-False / essay / fill-in (native) quiz_builder.q_multiple_choice / q_true_false / q_essay → full payload this skill's quiz_builder.py
git-program (a coding question) defer to the course-local git-homework (repo + autograder + assignment page); the quiz question is an essay (q_essay) whose text links to the coding assignment / Request repo. NO new git-program skill. local git-homework + assignment-page-builder for the page
bulk MCQ (e.g. all-50) run the MCQ helper N times from the source bank — one plugin, not a new skill quiz_builder.py

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 88 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 12963f5d8f4e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quiz-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository Canvas-LMS-MCP/canvas-teacher-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,815 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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