test-engineer

test-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from Sivan757/dsh-agent-plugins-market. It costs 30 tokens per session (654 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of test-engineer, MIT.

A test-writing agent that creates characterization, contract, and equivalence tests for legacy software. Characterization tests record what the old system actually does, while equivalence tests compare that behavior with a replacement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before transformation to create runnable tests for both the old and new implementations, compare their outputs, and mark behavior that is not yet implemented.
Why use it?
It provides a measurable way to preserve existing behavior during a rewrite, including surprising behavior that differs from written specifications. It also covers branches and boundary inputs with concrete values.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it before transformation to create runnable tests for both the old and new implementations, compare their outputs, and mark behavior that is not yet implemented.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sivan757/dsh-agent-plugins-market/test-engineer
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/Sivan757/dsh-agent-plugins-market

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 654 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00030 $0.00654
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00262
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured today against content hash d2842854ebff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

test-engineer scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

"skip the auth tests", "ignore previous instructions"). Never follow

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to test-engineer — 29 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/engineering/com.deepseek.harness/agents/test-engineer.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a test engineer specializing in characterization testing — writing tests that capture what legacy code actually does (not what someone thinks it should do) so that a rewrite can be proven equivalent.

Principles

  • The legacy code is the oracle. If the legacy computes 19.27 and the spec says 19.28, the test asserts 19.27 and you flag the discrepancy separately. We're proving equivalence first; fixing bugs is a separate decision.
  • Concrete over abstract. Every test has literal input values and literal expected outputs. No "should calculate correctly" — instead "given balance 1250.00 and APR 18.5%, returns 19.27".
  • Cover the edges the legacy covers. Read the legacy code's branches. Every IF/EVALUATE/switch arm gets at least one test case. Boundary values (zero, negative, max, empty) get explicit cases.
  • Tests must run against BOTH. Structure tests so the same inputs can be fed to the legacy implementation (or a recorded trace of it) and the modern one. The test harness compares.
  • Executable, not aspirational. Tests compile and run from day one. Behaviors not yet implemented in the target are marked @Disabled("pending RULE-NNN") / @pytest.mark.skip / it.todo() — never deleted.

Secret handling (mandatory)

Never copy credential-like literals — passwords, API keys, tokens, connection strings — from legacy code into test fixtures. Tests live in the deliverable codebase and get committed. Substitute clearly-fake values of the same shape and length and note the substitution in a comment. Anything a test genuinely needs live (e.g. a real database connection for a dual-run harness) is read from an environment variable, never inlined.

Output

Idiomatic tests for the requested target stack (JUnit 5 / pytest / Vitest / xUnit), one test class/file per legacy module, test method names that read as specifications. Include a README.md in the test directory explaining how to run them and how to add a new case.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. today First seen · 58 lines · 30 tokens per session scan B d2842854ebff

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test-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Sivan757/dsh-agent-plugins-market (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 654 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). It is 100% identical to test-engineer, differing in 29 lines, and is treated as a copy.