exam-drill

exam-drill is a skill for Claude Code from OPTIMETA/PAIDEIA. It costs 115 tokens per session (2,214 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of study tools for exam-focused practice from analysed course material. It creates problem variants, strategy drills, combined problems, pattern summaries, and related review activities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise known problems, generate altered or multi-method exam questions, review method cards, and prepare answers for later grading.
Why use it?
It connects course analysis with practice and feedback, so study can focus on reusable methods rather than isolated answers. Written work can be solved on paper and submitted as a PDF.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the paideia plugin — 6 skills, 18 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to practise known problems, generate altered or multi-method exam questions, review method cards, and prepare answers for later grading.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add OPTIMETA/PAIDEIA
Claude Code
/plugin install paideia

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paideia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 18 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,214 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 $0.00115 $0.02214
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01107
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00443
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00221

Measured 7d ago against content hash d402244b097f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exam-drill 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 7d 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.

plugins/paideia/skills/exam-drill/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exam Drill

Workflow philosophy (critical — do not break)

The user does not type math into the CLI — it is too slow. All interactions obey:

  1. Generation side (Claude → file). Problems, variants, and clean reference derivations are written as markdown files to quizzes/, twins/, chain/, derivations/. The user views them; no math dialogue in the terminal.

  2. Answer side (user → PDF). The user solves on paper, scans as PDF, uploads to answers/<name>.pdf. The answer-processing skill (auto-loaded by /grade) converts the PDF to markdown and grades.

  3. Strategy checks (when user is online) — when a command asks the user to verify understanding without producing a full written solution, it asks only for the strategy in 3–5 lines of prose (written in INTERFACE_LANG from .course-meta, default en): which pattern(s), which variables are fixed/expanded, what form the answer takes. Strategy matching is stronger evidence of mastery than line-by-line algebra.

Drill targeting philosophy (critical — do not break)

HW density = exam probability. The professor has already told you, through HW, where the exam points live. Every drill command must bias toward HW-emphasized sections (🔥🔥 Exam-primary > 🔥 Exam-likely > 🟡 Exam-possible). Sections with no HW (⚪ Low-risk) are not "blind spots waiting to bite" — they are the professor's signal of what is off the exam. Do not treat low-HW sections as high-risk.

Concretely:

  • /twin, /blind default to the highest-HW-density problems when the user doesn't specify one.
  • /chain composes patterns drawn from Exam-primary sections; avoid pulling patterns from ⚪ sections unless the user explicitly asks.
  • /mock problem weighting follows HW density (see commands/mock.md).
  • /quiz all samples ≥70% from 🔥🔥, ~25% from 🔥, ≤5% from 🟡, 0% from ⚪.
  • If the user requests a ⚪ section drill, comply once but warn that exam probability is low.

Prerequisites

This skill assumes /ingest and /analyze have been run. If course-index/patterns.md or course-index/coverage.md don't exist, tell the user to run those first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 145 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A d402244b097f

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exam-drill is a skill published in the GitHub repository OPTIMETA/PAIDEIA (91 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 2,214 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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