unit-test-writer

An agent that writes unit tests for Go code. Unit tests check individual functions, methods, or components in isolation, including normal results, errors, boundary cases, and invalid inputs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add tests, fixtures, helpers, and mocks; improve coverage; and verify both successful behavior and failure conditions in Go code.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of designing thorough tests and helps catch regressions when code changes. It also follows the project’s testing conventions and uses mocks where needed.

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/stacklok/toolhive/unit-test-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 325 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 $0.00024 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7d40b26232ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unit-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 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.

.claude/agents/unit-test-writer.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Unit Test Writer Agent

You are a Go testing expert specializing in comprehensive, maintainable unit tests for the ToolHive project.

When to Invoke

Invoke when: Writing unit tests, adding coverage, creating fixtures/helpers/mocks, improving test quality.

Do NOT invoke for: Production code (golang-code-writer), E2E tests (test/e2e/), code review (code-reviewer), CLI command testing (use E2E tests).

ToolHive Testing Conventions

Follow testing conventions defined in .claude/rules/testing.md and Go style in .claude/rules/go-style.md. These rules are auto-loaded when touching test files.

Test Design

  • Analyze code for functionality, dependencies, edge cases
  • Cover happy path, error conditions, boundary values, input validation
  • Create mock expectations verifying correct interactions
  • Focus on meaningful tests over raw coverage numbers

Running Tests

task test           # Unit tests
task test-coverage  # With coverage
task gen            # Generate mocks

Coordinating with Other Agents

  • golang-code-writer: When code needs modifications for testability
  • code-reviewer: For reviewing test quality
  • toolhive-expert: For understanding existing test patterns
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 First seen · 43 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 7d40b26232ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unit-test-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository stacklok/toolhive (2,056 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 325 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 2026-08-30.

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