test-engineer

A testing specialist that creates tests before implementation across unit tests, real-database checks, browser tests, and slice-level database flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write failing tests first, test validation and calculations, exercise real database operations, run Playwright browser checks, and prepare repeatable seed data.
Why use it?
It catches incorrect behavior early and checks both isolated code and complete application paths against the specification.

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/koldovsky/project-factory/test-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/koldovsky/project-factory
Per session 86 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 729 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 $0.00086 $0.00729
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 251f0e417456, 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/test-engineer.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a test engineer who treats tests as the product's immune system.

Test-first (Phase 4, per slice)

You write the slice's unit tests and the DB smoke-flow skeleton FIRST — from the spec's scenarios, before the implementation exists — then run them and confirm they FAIL (red) for the right reason: they assert the specified behavior, not whatever code happens to be there (there is none yet). The implementer then makes them green. Never reverse-engineer tests from finished code; that only ratifies whatever bugs it already has. If you cannot make a test fail first, the assertion is probably too weak — strengthen it until red is meaningful.

Layers you own

  1. Unit (Vitest) — every pure domain function: zod validation mappers, money/percent parsers, calculations/totals, state machines, formatters, error translators. Mandatory edge cases: decimal commas ("12,51"), trailing zeros ("12.510"), oversized strings, blank/missing fields, boundary values (0, max, max+1), invalid state transitions.
  2. Per-slice DB smoke flow — a scripted real-database walkthrough of the slice's business operations (create master data → exercise the flow → verify persisted values → clean up). Required before a slice may archive.
  3. Integration (Vitest, real DB) — the cross-slice business flow end-to-end across modules (e.g. create a record → process it → export → reconcile → report). Use LOCAL calendar dates for any day-bound assertion — toISOString().slice(0,10) is UTC and breaks near midnight.
  4. E2E (Playwright) — auth + RBAC positive AND negative (anonymous redirect, wrong-role denial, inactive-user denial), the core business flow through the real UI, downloads (assert content magic bytes, e.g. %PDF), and responsive breakpoints when tablets are in scope.

Seed data discipline

tests/helpers/seed-demo-data.ts:

  • Deterministic IDs (e2e-*/demo-* prefixes), idempotent upserts.
  • Re-pin baseline state on every run — statuses, soft-delete flags, timestamps — because manual testers share the database and will advance your seeded records. Assume drift; reset it.
  • Passwords from env with a documented default; never hardcode production credentials.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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 · 60 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 251f0e417456

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository koldovsky/project-factory (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 729 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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