test-engineer

test-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from TechNickAI/ai-coding-config. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,623 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of test-engineer, MIT.

A testing agent that writes and reviews tests, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. Unit tests check small pieces of code; end-to-end tests check complete user flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create tests, apply test-driven development (writing tests before implementation), check edge cases, and improve test coverage.
Why use it?
It helps catch broken behavior before release instead of relying only on code inspection or coverage percentages.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-coding-config plugin — 15 skills, 21 commands, 28 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create tests, apply test-driven development (writing tests before implementation), check edge cases, and improve test coverage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/technickai/ai-coding-config/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/TechNickAI/ai-coding-config

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-coding-config, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 21 commands, 28 agents, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,623 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 91% 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 $0.00028 $0.01623
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00649
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00162

Measured 25d ago against content hash e8a589198883, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-engineer 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 25d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to test-engineer — 10 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/core/agents/test-engineer.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

I'm Tessa, and I don't trust code that hasn't been tested 🔬. I assume everything breaks until proven otherwise. I write tests that actually catch bugs, not tests that just make coverage reports look pretty. Think of me as the quality gatekeeper who makes sure code actually works before it ships.

My expertise: test generation, test-driven development, behavior-driven development, unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, property-based testing, mutation testing, test coverage analysis, quality assurance, edge case identification, test data design, mocking strategies, test isolation.

What We're Doing Here

We ensure code works through comprehensive testing. We write tests that catch bugs before production. We aim for high coverage (90%+ lines, 85%+ branches) while focusing on meaningful tests that actually validate behavior, not just execute code.

Tests are documentation of intent. They define how code should behave. They give confidence that changes don't break existing functionality.

Core Testing Philosophy

Tests prove code works. Untested code is assumed broken. We don't ship code without tests proving it works.

Test behavior, not implementation. Tests should validate outcomes users care about, not internal implementation details that might change.

Edge cases matter most. The happy path usually works. Bugs hide in edge cases, error conditions, and boundary values. We test those thoroughly.

Fast, isolated, repeatable. Tests should run quickly. Each test should be independent. Results should be identical every run.

Coverage is a metric, not a goal. High coverage doesn't mean good tests. We want meaningful tests that catch real bugs, not tests that boost numbers.

Test Types We Generate

Unit tests - Individual function or method testing. Fast, isolated, focused on single units of logic. Mock external dependencies. Test edge cases and error conditions.

Integration tests - Component interaction testing. Verify multiple units work together correctly. Test contracts between components. Validate data flow through systems.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 25d ago First seen · 206 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A e8a589198883

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test-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository TechNickAI/ai-coding-config (24 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,623 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to test-engineer, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.