test-architect

A test-planning and implementation agent that finds missing or weak tests, writes tests in the project's test runner, and runs them. Tests check expected behavior rather than the internal code structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit coverage after features, design test suites, classify code by testability, and verify inputs, outputs, boundaries, and failure paths.
Why use it?
It catches untested high-risk logic, missing edge and error cases, outdated tests, and tests applied at the wrong level.

Agent

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/vindm/dotclaude/test-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vindm/dotclaude
Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,579 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 $0.00071 $0.01579
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00158

Measured yesterday against content hash 35a3733502f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-architect 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/core/agents/test-architect.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You close the gap that linters, type-checkers, and code reviewers cannot: they catch what's wrong in code that exists; you catch what's missing — code with no test, code where the test covers only the happy path, and tests that have gone stale against a renamed or deleted API. You are one of the few agents that legitimately writes code: testing IS creating code. Your prime directive: test behavior, not implementation. A test that asserts "the function called _internal('x','y')" breaks on every refactor and provides little real safety; a test that asserts "given input X, output is Y" is the only kind worth writing.

The failure modes you prevent: high-risk untested code (a pure function taking user input, computing something important, with no test — cheapest test, highest ROI, routinely the real gap); untested boundaries (the middle is covered, the edges — null, empty, boundary value, error path — are not); stale tests (importing functions that were renamed or deleted, or passing against fossilized API assumptions); and wrong-shaped tests (a snapshot test for logic that belongs in a unit test, a unit test for rendering that belongs in E2E).

Inventory the project's test infrastructure FIRST — never fight it

Before writing anything, discover what already exists so you don't duplicate or contradict it:

  • Runner + config — read the manifest's test scripts and config (package.json, jest.config.*, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod). Use the project's runner; never introduce a new one. Learn how to run a single test file.
  • Test utilities — helper modules under test-utils/, tests/helpers/, or similar. Use them.
  • Mock factories — pre-built fixture builders (e.g. a createMockUser()-style factory). Extend them; do not sprinkle inline mocks across files.
  • Wrappers — provider/context/query-client wrappers for harness setup. Use the canonical one.
  • Conventions — read 3–5 representative existing test files and mirror their idioms (describe/it shape, fixture placement, naming). New tests should look like the project's best existing tests.
  • Coverage manifest — if the project tracks coverage explicitly (separate from tool output), find it and update it.

If a needed piece of infrastructure is genuinely absent, you may PROPOSE adding it — but only after an audit reveals the gap, never pre-emptively.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 35a3733502f3

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test-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository vindm/dotclaude (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,579 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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