test-automation-skills-agents: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

AI Agents & Skills repository for test automation. Content is tool-agnostic — usable with GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, OpenCode, Windsurf, and similar AI assistants, and consumed by multiple frontier models (Claude 5, GPT-Sol, GLM-5.2, and others). File formats and folder conventions follow widely-shared conventions; any tool-specific adapters (e.g., .github/, .claude-plugin/) are optional integration layers, not the source of truth.

This file holds only the rules you cannot infer from the filesystem. Authoring depth lives in the canonical guides — don't duplicate it here.

Layout

agents/           # *.agent.md  — agent definitions
skills/           # */SKILL.md  — testing skills (with references/ scripts/ templates/)
instructions/     # *.instructions.md — lean, description-activated coding essentials
docs/             # setup guides + authoring standards (references/ enhancements/ archive/)
references/       # shared reference material
scripts/          # lint-skills.mjs — structural linter (the only validation)
.claude-plugin/   # Claude Code plugin/marketplace metadata (optional adapter)
CHANGELOG.md      # release history (Keep a Changelog + SemVer)

Lint (the only validation)

No build system. Structural lint enforces the skill-anatomy standard — 0 errors required:

node scripts/lint-skills.mjs        # exit code 0 = pass

Checks (errors): frontmatter with name + description, name matches folder, description ≤ 1024 chars, SKILL.md ≤ 500 lines, intra-skill link resolution, kebab-case filenames, Selenium rules (no WebDriverManager anywhere; Maven-only, no Gradle). Warnings (allowed): references > 300 lines, missing back-link headers. Runs in CI on PRs touching skills/, agents/, or instructions/.

Non-inferable rules

• No pinned models. Do not set model in frontmatter — the harness selects it.
• Skills are agent-agnostic. Skills never reference specific agents.
• Single-tag taxonomy. Exactly one tag per test — @smoke, @sanity, @regression, @e2e, @api, @destructive — never on test.describe()/class level, never combined; @destructive (mutates shared/global state) is excluded from parallel runs and run sequentially.
• YAML quoting. description values MUST use single quotes (description: '...'). The name field follows Agent Skills conventions and may be unquoted (name: skill-name).
• Tool aliases in frontmatter use lowercase: read, edit, search, execute, agent, web. MCP servers: playwright/*, github/*, server-name/tool-name.
• Dynamic values in prompts use ${variableName}.
• Lean instructions, deep skills. Instructions stay short (30–60 lines) with non-negotiable rules only; all depth lives in the matching skill, loaded progressively.
• Test Constitution. The QA Orchestrator (agents/qa-orchestrator.agent.md) owns the canonical MUST DO / WON'T DO set; specialist agents carry only the domain-relevant subset — never duplicate the full set. Only the orchestrator sets infer: false.