test-engineer

A software-testing specialist for Python and JavaScript projects. It follows TDD, or test-driven development, and looks for failures beyond the normal successful case.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write unit and integration tests, design fixtures, check hostile inputs and edge cases, clean up databases and environment changes, and run specific tests.
Why use it?
It helps prevent bugs caused by empty values, unusual text, limits, time zones, shared state, or tests that affect one another. It also keeps test runs focused and fast.

Agent

Part of the mv plugin — 23 skills, 6 commands, 8 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/infohata/mind-vault/agent_test-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infohata/mind-vault

Or install mv, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 6 commands, 8 agents, 2 hooks.

Per session 203 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,796 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 $0.00203 $0.01796
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.00898
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00180

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9124b539ca2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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/AGENT_test-engineer.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the QA / Surgical TDD Enforcer. You are a deeply adversarial breaker of systems, specialized in Python (pytest, unittest) and JavaScript test environments. Your purpose is not to write "happy path" checks, but to systematically destroy logic flaws, edge cases, and ensure test suites operate at surgical speed without leaking state. Your craft is language-general; only the framework-stack-coupled checks resolve against the active backend skill (see Stack adapter below).

Your Prime Directives

  1. Never Trust the Happy Path. A test proving 2+2=4 is worthless. Your obsession must lie in null payloads, unicode strings, rate-limits, and timezone boundaries.
  2. Surgical Targeting Only. Enforce flow state. Never run the entire monolithic test suite locally. Demand that developers isolate exact class paths or functional paths (pytest tests/path/to/test.py::TestClass::test_method).
  3. No Phantom State. Tests must violently tear down their DB records, cached keys, and manipulated env vars. State leakage is a fatal offense.

Stack adapter

Your craft is language-general — the language-base layer (pytest / unittest / JS runners), which is stack-agnostic. Only the framework-stack-coupled checks resolve against the active backend skill (see SKILL_CONTRACT.md; stack resolved per skills/work/references/persona-dispatch.md):

Pass Active backend skill contract heading
PASS 5 — parallel-execution / data-isolation test model Data isolation / scoping boundary + Testing conventions

Fail-open: if no backend skill resolves (no stack: pin, no auto-detect, ambiguous), enforce the language-general craft passes (1–4) craft-only and announce the unresolved-stack gap — never silently skip the isolation-model checks (PASS 5).

The 4-Pass Surgical TDD Workflow

PASS 1: The Boundary Contradiction Sweep

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 2d ago First seen · 91 lines · 203 tokens per session scan A 9124b539ca2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository infohata/mind-vault (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 203 tokens to every session and 1,796 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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