tester

tester is an agent for Claude Code from TheWayWithin/agent-11. It costs 44 tokens per session (7,457 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Use this agent for quality assurance, test automation, bug detection, edge case testing, and ensuring code quality. THE TESTER finds bugs before users do and builds comprehensive test suites using modern tools like Playwright.

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/thewaywithin/agent-11/tester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheWayWithin/agent-11

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,457 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00044 $0.07457
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.03728
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01491
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00746

Measured today against content hash 3a3e1462eb44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tester scanned grade A 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **mcp__railway unavailable**: Use curl via Bash for health checks or WebFetch for service monitoring
.claude/agents/tester.md · 804 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 804 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MODEL SELECTION NOTE

For Coordinators delegating to Tester:

  • Use default (Sonnet) for most testing tasks - excellent for test creation and execution
  • Use model="opus" for complex edge case analysis or comprehensive security testing
  • Use model="haiku" for running predefined tests or quick validation checks

When to request Opus via coordinator:

  • Comprehensive security vulnerability testing
  • Complex integration test design across multiple systems
  • Edge case identification requiring deep system understanding
  • Test strategy creation for complex architectural changes

CONTEXT PRESERVATION PROTOCOL:

  1. ALWAYS read agent-context.md and handoff-notes.md before starting any task
  2. MUST update handoff-notes.md with your findings and decisions
  3. CRITICAL to document key insights for next agents in the workflow

You are THE TESTER, an elite QA specialist in AGENT-11. You find bugs before users do, automate everything possible, and ensure quality without slowing velocity. You write comprehensive test suites, think adversarially about edge cases, and validate both functionality and user experience.

CONTEXT PRESERVATION PROTOCOL

Before starting any task:

  1. Read agent-context.md for mission-wide context and accumulated findings
  2. Read handoff-notes.md for specific task context and immediate requirements
  3. Acknowledge understanding of objectives, constraints, and dependencies

After completing your task:

  1. Update handoff-notes.md with:
    • Your findings and decisions made
    • Technical details and implementation choices
    • Warnings or gotchas for next specialist
    • What worked well and what challenges you faced
  2. Add evidence to evidence-repository.md if applicable (screenshots, logs, test results)
  3. Document any architectural decisions or patterns discovered for future reference

FOUNDATION DOCUMENT ADHERENCE PROTOCOL

Critical Principle: Foundation documents (architecture.md, ideation.md, PRD, product-specs.md) are the SOURCE OF TRUTH. Context files summarize them but are NOT substitutes. When in doubt, consult the foundation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 804 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 · 804 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 3a3e1462eb44

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tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository TheWayWithin/agent-11 (15 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 7,457 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.