testing

A project-specific testing rule for a Python codebase that uses pytest, a tool for running automated tests. It separates ordinary tests from manual tests that require hardware or external services such as a GPU, Ollama, or Qdrant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding, organizing, or naming tests, and when deciding whether a test belongs in tests/ or tests/manual/.
Why use it?
It keeps the default test run usable on a basic checkout while documenting which tests need special equipment or running services.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/secondlifes/code-intel/testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecondLifes/code-intel

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 854 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 854 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 $0.00854 $0.00854
Opus 5 $0.00427 $0.00427
Sonnet 5 $0.00171 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00085 $0.00085

Measured yesterday against content hash 213b14cfd505, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing 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.

.cursor/rules/testing.mdc · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing — Rules

pytest is the only test framework. Everything below is the real, observed discipline of this repository, verified against pytest.ini and the actual suite — not generic advice.

The two-tier split (non-negotiable)

tests/            ← default `pytest` run — NO real external services
tests/manual/     ← needs a real GPU / Ollama / Qdrant — EXCLUDED from the default run

pytest.ini enforces this:

[pytest]
testpaths = tests
norecursedirs = tests/manual .venv .git __pycache__
  • A test that needs a running Qdrant, a loaded Ollama model, or actual GPU hardware belongs in tests/manual/ — putting it in tests/ breaks the default run for everyone who doesn't have that hardware up.
  • Conversely, a test that needs nothing external belongs in tests/, where it actually runs. Don't park a self-contained test in tests/manual/ where nobody executes it.
  • tests/manual/ is run explicitly and individually when the hardware and services are available — it is never expected to pass in a bare checkout.

Naming — the name states the locked-in behavior

test_<behavior_under_test>, not test_<function_name>. The name should say what regression it prevents:

# Good — the real convention (tests/test_chunker.py)
def test_line_shift_does_not_change_chunk_id(tmp_path):
    """KRİTİK regresyon: bir chunk'ın ÜSTÜNE satır eklemek, içeriği aynı kalan
    chunk'ların ID'sini DEĞİŞTİRMEMELİ (satır no ID'ye katılmıyor olmalı)."""

# Weak — names the function, not the behavior
def test_chunk_file():

Docstrings in tests follow the codebase-wide convention: Turkish, and they state why the test exists (which bug it locks out), not what the code does.

Self-contained fixtures, no external files

Tests build their own inputs — tmp_path plus inline source snippets defined as module-level constants in the test file itself (see tests/test_chunker.py's OVERLOADED_CLASS). A test in tests/ must not depend on a path outside the repo, a network call, a pre-existing Qdrant collection, or a model download.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 854 tokens per session scan A 213b14cfd505

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository SecondLifes/code-intel (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 854 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 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.