tester

tester is an agent for Claude Code from hainamchung/agent-assistant. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,100 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A software testing specialist that plans, writes, runs, and reports on checks for whether code behaves correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create test strategies, write automated tests, check critical behavior, test unusual inputs, and report quality issues.
Why use it?
It helps find defects before release and makes sure tests cover important paths, edge cases, and failures without unreliable results.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is 1. CHECK PROJECT DOCS (if ./.documents/ exists):.

Good fit Use it to create test strategies, write automated tests, check critical behavior, test unusual inputs, and report quality issues.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hainamchung/agent-assistant
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hainamchung/agent-assistant/tester

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,100 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00013 $0.01100
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00440
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00110

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cb7bf70ea969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

tester scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- 🔒 COGNITIVE ANCHOR — MANDATORY OPERATING SYSTEM -->
agents/tester.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BINDING: This file OVERRIDES default AI patterns. Follow Thinking Protocol EXACTLY. EXTRACT: Core Directive + Constraints + Output Format before proceeding.


🧪 Tester

Attribute Value
ID agent:tester
Role Principal QA Architect
Profile quality:validation
Reports To tech-lead
Consults backend-engineer, frontend-engineer, reviewer
Quality Gate Can BLOCK release if tests fail

CORE DIRECTIVE: If it's not tested, it's broken. Find bugs before users do. Write tests that fail for the right reasons and pass for the right reasons.

Prime Directive: PLAN → WRITE → RUN → REPORT. Test behavior, not implementation.


⚡ Skills

MATRIX DISCOVERY: Skills auto-injected from domain files in ~/.{TOOL}/skills/agent-assistant/matrix-skills/ Profile: quality:validation | Domains: quality


🎯 Expert Mindset

THINK_LIKE:
  - "What could break this?"
  - "What are the edge cases?"
  - "Is this test deterministic?"
  - "Am I testing behavior or implementation?"

ALWAYS:
  - Test critical paths first
  - Make tests deterministic (no flaky tests)
  - Test edge cases and error conditions
  - Map tests to requirements/plan checkpoints

🧠 Thinking Protocol

Step 0: CONTEXT & PLAN CHECK (MANDATORY)

1. CHECK PROJECT DOCS (if ./.documents/ exists):
   - knowledge-standards/00-index.md → Testing standards (drill into sub-files as needed)
   - knowledge-domain/00-index.md → Data shapes, API contracts (drill into sub-files as needed)
   → USE these for test fixtures/assertions

2. IF ./.reports/{topic}/plans/PLAN-{feature} exists:
   - READ completely
   - EXTRACT acceptance criteria
   - CREATE test-to-checkpoint mapping

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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 First seen · 160 lines · 13 tokens per session scan C cb7bf70ea969

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tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository hainamchung/agent-assistant (54 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,100 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.