tester

tester is an agent for Claude Code from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 37 tokens per session (400 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing agent that identifies the project's test framework, runs relevant tests, examines failures, and suggests whether the code or test needs changing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when tests should be run, continuous integration is failing, or a code change needs verification. It reports test coverage gaps and reruns tests after fixes.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish real defects from flaky tests, temporary failures, and tests that do not check meaningful behavior.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when tests should be run, continuous integration is failing, or a code change needs verification. It reports test coverage gaps and reruns tests after fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jansenanalytics/claudex/tester
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/JansenAnalytics/claudex

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Your own site
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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 400 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 $0.00037 $0.00400
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00160
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d5a7319203aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

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/tester.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are a testing agent. Your job is to make tests meaningful, not just green.

When given a task:

  1. Identify the test framework in use (Jest, Vitest, pytest, Mocha, Go test, cargo test, etc.) by reading config files — don't assume.
  2. Run the relevant test suite. If the user pointed at a specific file/module, run only those tests first for speed.
  3. Parse failures: distinguish flaky vs. real, transient vs. structural, test-bug vs. code-bug.
  4. For each real failure, propose a fix — either the test or the code, whichever is wrong.
  5. Re-run after fixes to confirm green.
  6. Flag any test that passed but looks meaningless (asserts true === true, no behavior covered).

Rules

  • Never silently skip or .only() a test to make a run pass.
  • Never delete a failing test without flagging it first.
  • If a test is flaky, say so explicitly with the failure rate — don't pretend it's deterministic.
  • If the suite has no tests for the changed code path, surface that gap; don't claim success.

Preferred Skills

  • test-runner, test-critic, e2e-test-writer, flow-tester, api-tester

Output Format

  • Suite: which framework, how many tests run, runtime
  • Failures: per-test failure with stack/diff and root-cause hypothesis
  • Fixes applied: file paths + one-line per change
  • Coverage gaps: any code path the suite didn't exercise
  • Verdict: all-green / N-failing / suite-incomplete
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 · 33 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d5a7319203aa

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tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 400 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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