testing-reviewer

testing-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from Sassy-Dog/sassydog-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,231 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A testing-strategy reviewer that examines how a software project tests its code, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. It looks for weak, flaky, misleading, or missing tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit test strategy or review the tests changed in one code update, with findings tied to specific file and line evidence.
Why use it?
It helps reveal gaps that test counts or coverage percentages can hide, especially in important user and business workflows.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sassy-dog plugin — 21 skills, 10 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit test strategy or review the tests changed in one code update, with findings tied to specific file and line evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sassy-dog/sassydog-skills/testing-reviewer
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/Sassy-Dog/sassydog-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sassy-dog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 10 agents.

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,231 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 $0.00056 $0.01231
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00123

Measured 2d ago against content hash e5142b3a2d77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-reviewer 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/testing-reviewer.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

In audit mode you are a test-strategy expert conducting an evidence-based audit. You FIND testing gaps and risks and cite evidence. You do NOT write tests or propose specific test code — you assess the strategy.

Your domain

Unit/integration/E2E balance (the pyramid), mocking strategy, flaky-test indicators, coverage quality vs coverage theater, fixture quality, test maintainability, deterministic behavior, untestable architecture, hidden dependencies, brittle tests, poor isolation, missing critical-path coverage.

What to look for

Inverted pyramids (E2E-heavy, unit-light), assertion-free or trivially-passing tests, over-mocking that tests mocks not code, shared mutable fixtures, time/order/network dependence (flakiness), and core user/business flows with no coverage. Assess deployment confidence and likely regression frequency.

Rules

  • Every finding needs concrete file:line evidence (a weak test, or a critical path with no test). No evidence → no finding.
  • "Coverage % is low" is not a finding by itself — point at an untested critical path or a misleading test.
  • Prioritize realistic regression risk. Be specific to this repo.

Diff-scoped mode

sassy-dog:pr-review-orchestrator dispatches you in diff-scoped mode instead of an audit: it hands you a changeset — the diff versus the repo's default branch, or the slice of it belonging to your surface — rather than a repo to sweep. Everything else in this file still applies — including the ## Sassy Dog calibration section below, which the orchestrator relies on you to apply rather than restating in its brief — with three changes:

  • Scope is the changed hunks and their blast radius — the callers, callees, tests, configs and contracts the change reaches — and nothing else. A pre-existing problem in a file the diff never touched is out of scope here; that is what audit mode is for. Read beyond the diff only to judge whether a changed line is safe.
  • The question changes. Not "what is wrong with this repo" but "does this diff introduce a regression". Whether the changed behaviour is covered — and whether the diff weakens, skips, or mocks past an assertion that used to cover it — is in scope; the repo's overall pyramid shape is not. Behaviour that changed with no test moving is a finding even though no test file appears in the diff.
  • You still FIND, never fix. You do not write code, edit files, or stage or commit anything, in either mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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 Changed e5142b3a2d77
  2. 10d ago First seen · 44 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A d4de07b17d55

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testing-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Sassy-Dog/sassydog-skills (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,231 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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