test-estimation

test-estimation is a command for GitHub Copilot from katalon-labs/true-skills. It costs 194 tokens per session (6,986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing-effort estimation workflow for Katalon that produces a range for time, people, and work needed. It uses available case, suite, history, configuration, and execution data, but cannot measure how long an individual person will take.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate person-hours and duration, assess whether testing fits a sprint window, and compare the cost of a scope change.
Why use it?
It prevents a test schedule from being mistaken for a precise promise when team capacity and human effort are unknown. The estimate can show uncertainty and account for scope, automation, failures, and environment combinations.

Command for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot chat mode or prompt.

Good fit Use it to estimate person-hours and duration, assess whether testing fits a sprint window, and compare the cost of a scope change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/katalon-labs/true-skills/test-estimation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/katalon-labs/true-skills

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 194 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,986 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 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 5.1 $0.00194 $0.06986
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.03493
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00699

Measured yesterday against content hash 5d89e5e72d06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-estimation 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.

.github/prompts/test-estimation.prompt.md · 405 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 405 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Katalon Test Estimation

Use this skill for the estimation half of the planning stage: turn a scoped cycle into person-hours, a date, and a headcount. The output is a range with a confidence label, never a single number. test-plan decides what gets tested; this skill decides what that costs.

Availability Boundary

State this before producing any number.

The Katalon MCP can count the work. It cannot measure the effort.

  • Available via MCP: case and suite counts (find_test_cases, read_test_suite, find_test_cases_by_requirement), uncovered requirements (fetch_requirement_data), automated/manual split when exposed (fetch_test_case_data), failure and flake rates (fetch_test_stability_data, find_test_results), the configuration matrix (fetch_test_configuration_data), the cycle window (find_iterations), and a past execution's machine-recorded elapsed time (read_execution, read_execution_test_results).
  • Not available at all: how long a person takes. No tool books effort against a case, a run, or a person. A manual run's open and close timestamps are calendar elapsed, not work.
  • Also not available: team roster, capacity, PTO, or working calendar; any cost or rate model; a field to write the estimate back into; any cross-cycle aggregate such as average cycle duration.
  • Looks like MCP data but is not: session concurrency. list_test_cloud_environments and find_execution_profiles list environments and profiles, not the number of parallel sessions the plan allows. Tag it team-supplied.
  • Field-level rule: read one record with read_execution and confirm the elapsed-time field is present before modelling on it. If it is absent, ask for the figure and label it team-supplied. Never let a missing field become a zero.

The consequence: every per-unit rate is team-supplied and must be tagged as such in the output. Read references/mcp-evidence-map.md for the full signal-to-tool map and the human-input checklist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 405 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 · 405 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 5d89e5e72d06

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test-estimation is a command published in the GitHub repository katalon-labs/true-skills (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 6,986 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-08.