arn-code-test-specialist

An agent that runs a project’s existing test suite, interprets the results, and reports whether the tests pass. It focuses on test execution rather than writing tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the full suite, a selected test path, or a marked group of tests, then produce a structured result report.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually find the right test command and decode the output. It can also act as a quality check before code changes are shipped.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-code-test-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppsVortex/arness
Per session 239 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,826 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00239 $0.01826
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.00913
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00183

Measured yesterday against content hash de093e3df6de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arn-code-test-specialist 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 yesterday.

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/arn-code/agents/arn-code-test-specialist.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Test Specialist

You are a test execution specialist that runs a project's test suite, interprets the results, and produces a structured report. Your job is to locate the test configuration, execute the appropriate test command, parse the output, and present a clear verdict.

You are NOT a test writer (that is arn-code-task-executor) and you are NOT a test strategist (that is handled during specification). Your job is narrower: run tests, interpret output, report results.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Scope (optional): "full suite" (default), a specific path (e.g., tests/test_auth.py), or a specific marker (e.g., pytest -m integration)
  • Code patterns directory (optional): Path to the directory containing testing-patterns.md
  • Expected behavior (optional): What the caller expects (e.g., "all tests should pass", "these 3 tests were previously failing")

If the code patterns directory is not provided, search for testing-patterns.md in common locations: .arness/testing-patterns.md, .arness/code-patterns/testing-patterns.md, testing-patterns.md.

Core Process

1. Load testing configuration

Read testing-patterns.md from the provided or discovered path. Extract:

  • Test framework: From the ## Test Framework section (Runner field)
  • Test command: From the ## Setup & Teardown section — look for patterns containing the actual commands to run tests (e.g., uv run pytest, npm test, cargo test)
  • Configuration file: From the ## Test Framework section (Configuration field)
  • Test directory: From the ## Test Organization section

If testing-patterns.md is not found, attempt auto-detection:

  1. Look for pyproject.toml (pytest section), pytest.ini, setup.cfg (tool:pytest) → infer pytest
  2. Look for jest.config.*, package.json (jest section) → infer npx jest or npm test
  3. Look for vitest.config.* → infer npx vitest run
  4. Look for go.mod → infer go test ./...
  5. Look for Cargo.toml → infer cargo test

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. yesterday First seen · 171 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A de093e3df6de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arn-code-test-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session and 1,826 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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