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Module 5 — Agents, Chains, and the Limits of Delegation

Lesson 18: Chaining Skills — When Output Becomes Input

Last updated: 2026-05-12

Skills are useful in isolation and more useful still when each feeds the next. A short chain of well-named skills produces a working system; a chain that improves its own components on every run produces compounding.

Lesson 18: Chaining Skills — When Output Becomes Input

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Output becomes input becomes improvement

13 min
Pause and Think

Of the recurring routines you perform, can you name one where the output of step one feeds step two, the output of step two feeds step three, and the result genuinely benefits from each handoff?

Practice Question

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Choose one answer, use the hint if needed, then check your answer.
Use the hint before checking if you need a nudge.