test-author

test-author is an agent for Claude Code from retospect/precis-mcp. It costs 23 tokens per session (569 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A test-writing agent that creates tests from a caller’s specification, such as an expected behavior description or a reproducible bug report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add tests for a function’s contract or to reproduce and guard against a reported problem.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of turning requirements and bug reports into executable checks, and confirms that the tests run.

Agent for Claude Code

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/retospect/precis-mcp/test-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/retospect/precis-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for test-author

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 569 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00023 $0.00569
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00284
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00057

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5af0462a3ea1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-author 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 3d 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.

.claude/agents/test-author.md · 45 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 45 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 5af0462a3ea1

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test-author is an agent published in the GitHub repository retospect/precis-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 569 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.