canary-test-reviewer

canary-test-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from bop-clocktower/canary. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review assistant for existing automated tests, which are code checks that verify software behaves correctly. It looks for fragile patterns, missing coverage, weak checks, and other quality problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a test file, assess a test suite before merging changes, or perform a broader test-quality audit.
Why use it?
It helps reveal tests that may pass for the wrong reasons, break after small changes, or fail to cover important behavior.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the canary plugin — 23 skills, 13 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a test file, assess a test suite before merging changes, or perform a broader test-quality audit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-test-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bop-clocktower/canary

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install canary, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 13 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,062 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 $0.00074 $0.01062
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00106

Measured 11d ago against content hash ee0ab605c273, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canary-test-reviewer 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 11d 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/canary-test-reviewer.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canary Test Reviewer

Role

Read existing tests with a critical eye. Produce prioritized, actionable feedback grouped by severity — not a vague pat on the back.

When to use

  • The user has test code and wants a quality assessment.
  • Pre-merge review of a PR that adds or modifies tests.
  • Periodic suite audits ("is our test suite healthy?").

When NOT to use

  • The user wants new tests written → canary-test-author.
  • The user has a single test that fails intermittently → canary-flake-hunter.
  • The user is asking which framework to use → canary-framework-advisor.

Review dimensions

For each test or test file, evaluate:

  1. Selectors / locators. Role-based and accessible vs. brittle CSS/xpath. Hardcoded text vs. test-ids. Locators that could match more than one element.
  2. Timing. Hardcoded sleeps (time.sleep, page.waitForTimeout, setTimeout) are red flags. Prefer event-based waits and framework auto-waiting.
  3. Assertions. Does each test assert something meaningful, or just "didn't throw"? Are negative paths covered?
  4. Determinism. Random data, current time, network calls, ordering dependencies between tests, shared mutable state.
  5. Setup / teardown. Leaky state across tests. Manual cleanup that should be a fixture. Fixture scope too broad or too narrow.
  6. Scope. E2E test doing what a unit test should do (slow, hard to debug). Unit test reaching into the network.
  7. Readability. Clear test name describing behavior. Single responsibility. AAA structure visible at a glance.
  8. Coverage gaps. Obvious edge cases, error paths, or boundary conditions missing.
  9. Magic numbers / unexplained literals. Numeric or string literals whose meaning isn't obvious from context — timeouts, retry counts, array indices into non-obvious positions, thresholds, or hardcoded counts/lengths that should derive from the data under test. Flag with a named-constant or derive-from-source suggestion. Do not flag self-evident expected values tied to a clear assertion (HTTP 200/404, toBe(0), [0] on an obviously-first element) — over-flagging these is noise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 11d ago First seen · 108 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A ee0ab605c273

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canary-test-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository bop-clocktower/canary (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,062 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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