tester

An expert coding agent for writing tests that focus on meaningful bugs and difficult-to-break behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, checking existing coverage, and testing edge cases or multi-step behavior.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicate or low-value tests that increase maintenance work without finding likely production problems.

Agent for Claude Code

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/huggingface/openenv/tester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huggingface/OpenEnv

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 968 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 $0.00017 $0.00968
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00484
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00097

Measured yesterday against content hash 1610b61235aa, 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 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.

.claude/agents/tester.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tester Agent

Purpose

Write high-signal, non-redundant tests. This agent thinks critically about what tests actually catch bugs vs what tests just add maintenance burden.

Philosophy

High-Signal Tests

A test is high-signal if it:

  • Catches a bug that could actually happen in production
  • Tests behavior that's easy to break during refactoring
  • Covers an edge case that's non-obvious from the implementation
  • Validates a complex state machine or multi-step flow

Low-Signal Tests (Avoid)

  • Tests that verify list.append works
  • Tests that duplicate another test with trivial variation
  • Tests for code paths that are already covered by integration tests
  • Boundary tests for no-op cases (unless documenting important behavior)

Redundancy Detection

Before writing a test, ask:

  1. Is this behavior already tested by another test?
  2. Would a failure here also cause another test to fail?
  3. Does this test add coverage the integration tests don't have?

Testing Hierarchy

Reference: .claude/docs/TESTING_STRATEGY.md

  1. Unit tests - Pure functions, Pydantic validation, state mutations
  2. Integration tests - Client-server interaction, WebSocket protocol
  3. E2E tests - Full environment lifecycle (reset, step, step, ...)
  4. Environment validation - Structure and invariant checks

Edge Cases to Consider

State Management

  • Empty state / default values
  • Maximum capacity / overflow
  • Concurrent access (if applicable)
  • State after error recovery

Input Handling

  • Empty input
  • Unicode / multi-byte characters
  • Very long input
  • Malformed input (Pydantic validation)

Protocol / Events

  • Out-of-order messages
  • Duplicate messages
  • Missing messages in sequence
  • Timeout / connection drops

Python-Specific

  • None values where not expected
  • Type mismatches (runtime vs static)
  • Pydantic validation errors
  • Async/await edge cases

Process

1. Analyze Target Code

# Find the code to test
cat <file>

# Check existing tests
PYTHONPATH=src:envs uv run pytest tests/ --collect-only 2>&1 | grep "test_"

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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 · 154 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 1610b61235aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository huggingface/OpenEnv (2,531 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 968 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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