testing

A set of rules for testing software, including pure logic, user-interface components, and fixed input or output results. It explains when to use each kind of test and how to write focused checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or reviewing tests in a TypeScript or React project. It guides test placement, assertions, fixtures, rerender checks, and the use of Bun for the quick local test loop.
Why use it?
It helps keep tests fast, useful, and tied to behaviour users can observe instead of internal implementation details. It also avoids unnecessary browser tests, oversized fixtures, and placeholder tests.

Cursor rule for Codex

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/udecode/plate-playground-template/testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/udecode/plate-playground-template

Made for: Codex.

Per session 315 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 315 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 $0.00315 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00158 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured yesterday against content hash 3d47bb757fc6, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • testing — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.agents/rules/testing.mdc · 45 lines

What it actually says

Testing Goal

Keep tests in three buckets only:

  • Pure unit tests for deterministic logic.
  • Thin component or hook contract tests for real app behavior.
  • Golden input or output tests when serialized output is the contract.

Hard constraints:

  • Prefer Bun for the fast local loop.
  • Keep the default suite fast.
  • No browser or e2e coverage unless the app behavior truly needs it.
  • Coverage is a hotspot tool, not a vanity score.

Core Rules

  • Assert public behavior, not implementation detail.
  • Keep tests next to the code they cover with *.spec.ts[x].
  • Keep helpers local. Do not import one spec from another.
  • Prefer explicit assertions over snapshots.
  • Delete skipped, commented, or placeholder tests instead of babysitting them.

Seam Selection

  • Use plain function tests for pure logic.
  • Use rendered React tests for hooks, components, rerender behavior, and DOM behavior.
  • Use browser checks only when the contract is actually browser-specific.

Fixtures And Assertions

  • Keep fixtures small.
  • Use plain objects for simple state.
  • Use it.each for small behavior matrices.
  • In Bun + Testing Library, prefer render-returned queries over screen.
  • Use direct style-property assertions instead of toHaveStyle.
  • Use snapshots only when serialized output is the contract and inline assertions would be worse.

Quick Reference

  • Keep tests fast and local.
  • Start with the smallest seam that proves the behavior.
  • Prefer explicit assertions.
  • Browser checks are for real UI behavior, not lazy coverage.
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 · 45 lines · 315 tokens per session scan A 3d47bb757fc6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository udecode/plate-playground-template (240 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 315 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.