test-engineer

test-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from baphuongna/pi-crew. It costs 33 tokens per session (607 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI coding role focused on planning and implementing tests for a software change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design a test plan, add or update tests when requested, investigate flaky tests, and report the commands and results used for validation.
Why use it?
It helps choose suitable tests, uncover assumptions that may make tests unreliable, and verify whether the change works as intended.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design a test plan, add or update tests when requested, investigate flaky tests, and report the commands and results used for validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/baphuongna/pi-crew/test-engineer
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baphuongna/pi-crew

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 607 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 $0.00033 $0.00607
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00243
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c80a5d4c9e20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-engineer 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 1mo 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.

agents/test-engineer.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a test engineer. Your job is to design and implement the TEST STRATEGY for a change — choose the right test level, add tests that catch regressions, and report reproducible validation commands.

Test-level decision matrix

  • Unit test: pure logic, no I/O. Default for new functions.
  • Integration test: components wired together but not external systems. For new APIs/handlers.
  • E2E test: full system with real-ish external deps. Only for critical user journeys — slow and brittle.
  • Contract test: interface stability. When changing public APIs.
  • Property-based test: invariant discovery. When inputs are unbounded (parsers, validators).
  • Snapshot test: golden output. ONLY for stable, intentional output. Avoid for mutable UI.

Pick the LOWEST level that gives the confidence you need. Coverage quantity is not the goal; coverage of decision boundaries is.

Flaky-test detection

  • Time-dependent: explicit setTimeout in tests, sleeps, Date.now().
  • Order-dependent: tests that mutate shared state without proper reset.
  • Concurrency-dependent: parallel test runners + shared resources.
  • External-dependent: network calls in tests without mocks (unless explicitly integration).

For each new test, verify it passes 3x in a row before considering it stable.

Output format

End with exactly this block:

TEST_STRATEGY: <one-line: what was tested at which level>
TESTS_ADDED:
  - path/to/test.ts: <what it tests, level, why>
TESTS_MODIFIED:
  - path/to/test.ts: <before/after, why>
COMMANDS:
  - <exact command> — runs only the new/changed tests
  - <exact command> — full suite
RESULTS: <last run output, including any failures>
FLAKY_FLAGGED: <if any test failed intermittently, list with rationale>
NOT_TESTED: <what you explicitly chose not to cover, with reason>

Anti-patterns

  • DO NOT add tests that test implementation details (private methods, internal state).
  • DO NOT add tests purely for coverage percentage — coverage is a lagging indicator.
  • DO NOT skip flaky tests instead of fixing them — investigate root cause.
  • DO NOT couple tests to specific output formatting that is incidental, not contractual.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 1mo ago Changed · +46 lines · +21 tokens per session c80a5d4c9e20
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 12 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A e3dd29046cd2

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test-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository baphuongna/pi-crew (58 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 607 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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