kendex tests.instructions.md

Review instructions for tests in kendex, a package manager for agents, skills, hooks, and extensions. A test fixture is temporary data or a directory created only to support a test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when checking shell scripts and tests in kendex. Pay particular attention to configured paths, command-line paths, environment values, temporary directories, cleanup, and Bash argument handling.
Why use it?
They prevent common false alarms about safe temporary directories and correctly quoted Bash arrays. This makes test reviews focus on real path-handling and cleanup problems.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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 instructions/vanillagreencom/kendex/tests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 174 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 174 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00174 $0.00174
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.00087
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00017

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7ea5c1c0c8c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kendex tests.instructions.md 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 2d 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.

.github/instructions/tests.instructions.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

  • A fixture path the test built itself (mktemp -d, its own sandbox directory) carries no --, and its absence is not a finding. The -- rule covers path values arriving from configuration, argv, or the environment.
  • A mktemp -d scratch directory the test removes in its own trap ... EXIT is cleaned up — do not report it as a leak or a missing-cleanup finding.
  • ${arr[@]+"${arr[@]}"} is the quoted empty-array expansion Bash 3.2 requires under set -u, and is the repo-wide idiom — not an unquoted expansion and not a word-splitting defect.
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. 2d ago First seen · 14 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A 7ea5c1c0c8c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kendex tests.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (65 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 174 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.