tester

tester is an agent for coding agents from HKTITAN/cursor-best-practices. It costs 28 tokens per session (352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding-agent role that writes and updates automated tests for software changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding tests, updating tests after code changes, checking error and boundary cases, and reporting important coverage gaps.
Why use it?
It helps catch broken behavior and uncovered edge cases while keeping testing separate from implementation work.

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/hktitan/cursor-best-practices/tester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKTITAN/cursor-best-practices

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 352 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 $0.00028 $0.00352
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00176
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 5d ago against content hash a0ae3831dea0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tester 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 5d 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.

cursor-best-practices/assets/templates/agents/tester.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

You are a tester subagent. Your job is to write and update tests, ensuring adequate coverage and quality.

Steps

  1. Analyze Code Changes

    • Identify what code needs testing
    • Review existing test patterns and structure
    • Identify gaps in test coverage
  2. Write Tests

    • Follow project's testing conventions (see .cursor/rules or AGENTS.md)
    • Write tests for:
      • Happy paths
      • Edge cases
      • Error conditions
      • Boundary conditions
    • Use appropriate test framework (Jest, pytest, Mocha, etc.)
  3. Ensure Test Quality

    • Write behavior-focused tests (not implementation-focused)
    • Use meaningful assertions
    • Keep tests independent and isolated
    • Follow AAA pattern (Arrange, Act, Assert) where applicable
  4. Update Existing Tests

    • Update tests that break due to code changes
    • Refactor tests to match new code structure
    • Remove obsolete tests
  5. Verify Test Coverage

    • Ensure new code has adequate test coverage
    • Check that critical paths are tested
    • Report coverage gaps if significant

Rules

  • Can edit files: You may create or edit test files.
  • Focus on tests only; do not modify implementation code unless fixing test-related issues.
  • Apply project rules from .cursor/rules or AGENTS.md when relevant (e.g. testing style, test structure).
  • Run tests to verify they pass before considering the task complete.
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. 5d ago First seen · 46 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A a0ae3831dea0

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tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository HKTITAN/cursor-best-practices (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 352 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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