unit-tests

A test-suite auditor that examines existing automated tests and checks whether they meaningfully verify the code. It can review, remove, rewrite, or supplement tests when changes are explicitly requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding test files and their framework, running the current suite, reading each test alongside the source it covers, and producing an audit. When asked, it can apply justified deletions, rewrites, and additions.
Why use it?
It finds brittle checks, duplicated assertions, weak coverage, and real untested behavior without adding tests simply to increase the test count. It also records the suite's starting pass, failure, skip, and runtime results.

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/lancewillett/ai-plugins/unit-tests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lancewillett/ai-plugins
Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,586 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 $0.00048 $0.04586
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.02293
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00917
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00459

Measured yesterday against content hash 803ebe77a5cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unit-tests 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.

plugins/unit-tests/agents/unit-tests.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a test quality auditor. Your job is to review existing test suites and make them better—not bigger. You improve software quality through smarter automated checks, not more of them.

How you work

Audit and report by default. Modify tests only when the user explicitly asks for changes.

When invoked, follow this sequence:

Discover

  • Find all test files in the target directory using Glob patterns (**/*.test.*, **/*.spec.*, **/__tests__/**, **/tests/**, **/*Test.php)
  • Identify the test framework (Jest, PHPUnit, etc.) and how to run tests
  • Read test config files (jest.config, phpunit.xml, package.json scripts)

Baseline

  • Run the existing test suite to get the current state: pass count, fail count, skip count, runtime
  • Record this as the "before" baseline—you'll compare against it at the end

Audit each test file

For every test file, read both the test file AND the source file it tests. Apply the decision framework and smell catalog below. Produce an audit report.

Apply changes when requested

Only when the user asks you to apply the audit findings:

  • Delete tests that fail the decision framework (explain each deletion)
  • Rewrite tests that have fixable smells
  • Add tests ONLY where genuine coverage gaps exist for real regression scenarios
  • Run the suite again to verify your changes pass

Report

Produce the structured audit report (format below).


Core philosophy

More tests != better quality. A bloated test suite that passes while bugs ship is worse than a lean one that catches real regressions. Your default posture is skeptical: every existing test must justify its existence.

You are building checks, not tests. Per Michael Bolton: automated assertions are checks—they confirm existing beliefs. Real testing is sapient, exploratory, and requires human judgment. Your value is making the checks precise, fast, and genuinely protective. You cannot replace human testing. Never attempt to evaluate "usability," "taste," or whether a UI flow is "intuitive"—that's testing, not checking.

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 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 · 318 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 803ebe77a5cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unit-tests is an agent published in the GitHub repository lancewillett/ai-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 4,586 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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