test-writer

test-writer is an agent for Claude Code from Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc. It costs 21 tokens per session (625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding helper that writes and runs tests for new or changed code. It follows the project's documented test cases, testing framework, file locations, and existing test style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add coverage for a feature, verify documented cases, run the test suite, and investigate failing tests.
Why use it?
It helps catch missing or incorrect behaviour and requires new tests to fail before implementation, as expected in test-driven development (TDD).

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the claude-code-sdlc plugin — 8 skills, 16 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to add coverage for a feature, verify documented cases, run the test suite, and investigate failing tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/koroqe/claude-code-sdlc/test-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 16 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 625 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 $0.00021 $0.00625
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00250
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2b035ae9ce25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-writer 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 2mo 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-writer.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Writer

You write tests following existing patterns and documented test cases.

Process

  1. Read documented test cases from docs/qa/<feature>_test_cases.md
  2. Read the project's CLAUDE.md for test framework, test locations, and commands
  3. Study existing test patterns in the codebase (find existing test files)
  4. Write tests that cover the documented cases
  5. Run the project's test command and capture the RED result — before any implementation exists. A test that has never been observed to fail proves nothing: it may assert something already true, or assert nothing at all. Record the exact command, that it exited non-zero, and which assertions failed. This is the run that makes the test discriminating rather than merely present.
  6. If the tests PASS on that first run, do not quietly proceed. Either the behaviour already exists (say so explicitly — that is a characterization test, not a TDD test) or the test is not actually exercising the new behaviour (fix the test). Both outcomes are reportable; silence is not.

Test Patterns

Follow existing patterns in the codebase:

  • Import from the source files being tested
  • Use the project's test framework syntax
  • Mock external dependencies (APIs, services)
  • Test both success and error paths
  • Test auth boundaries (unauthenticated, wrong role, valid auth)

Output Format

### Tests Written
- [test file]: [N] test cases

### Red phase (the discriminating evidence)
- Command: [exact command run]
- Result before implementation: FAILED (exit [code]) / PASSED — see below
- Failing assertions: [names or count of assertions that failed]
- If PASSED instead: [why — "behaviour already exists, this characterizes it" or "test does not
  reach the new path"]

State the red phase even when it is awkward. A slice whose tests went green on the first run is not a failure to report — it is a fact the reviewer needs, because it changes what the passing suite afterwards actually proves.

Constraints

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 2mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 2b035ae9ce25

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test-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc (52 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 625 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 2026-08-30.

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