testing-patterns

testing-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from aigentive/RalphX. It costs 10 tokens per session (691 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to test-driven development, or TDD, where you write a failing test, make it pass with code, then improve the code and repeat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for TypeScript and React tests, including components, hooks, user interactions, and mocked functions.
Why use it?
It clarifies expected behavior early, catches regressions, and keeps tests alongside the implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the ralphx plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for TypeScript and React tests, including components, hooks, user interactions, and mocked functions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aigentive/ralphx/testing-patterns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aigentive/RalphX --skill testing-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aigentive/RalphX

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ralphx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 691 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00010 $0.00691
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00069

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4e5e41826369, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-patterns 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 1mo 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.

plugins/app/skills/testing-patterns/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing Patterns

TDD Workflow

The Cycle

  1. Write a failing test - Define expected behavior
  2. Implement - Minimum code to pass
  3. Refactor - Improve code quality
  4. Repeat - Next test case

Why TDD

  • Tests define requirements clearly
  • Catches regressions early
  • Forces modular design
  • Documents expected behavior

TypeScript Testing (Vitest)

Setup

import { describe, it, expect, vi } from 'vitest';
import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';

Component Tests

describe('MyComponent', () => {
  it('should render the title', () => {
    render(<MyComponent title="Hello" />);
    expect(screen.getByText('Hello')).toBeInTheDocument();
  });

  it('should call onChange when clicked', async () => {
    const onChange = vi.fn();
    render(<MyComponent onChange={onChange} />);

    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button'));
    expect(onChange).toHaveBeenCalled();
  });
});

Hook Tests

import { renderHook, act } from '@testing-library/react';

it('should increment counter', () => {
  const { result } = renderHook(() => useCounter());

  act(() => {
    result.current.increment();
  });

  expect(result.current.count).toBe(1);
});

Mocking

// Mock Tauri invoke
vi.mock('@tauri-apps/api/core', () => ({
  invoke: vi.fn(),
}));

// Mock module
vi.mock('./api', () => ({
  fetchData: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ data: [] }),
}));

Rust Testing

Unit Tests

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn test_addition() {
        assert_eq!(add(2, 2), 4);
    }

    #[test]
    #[should_panic(expected = "divide by zero")]
    fn test_divide_by_zero() {
        divide(1, 0);
    }
}

Async Tests

#[tokio::test]
async fn test_async_operation() {
    let result = fetch_data().await;
    assert!(result.is_ok());
}

Integration Tests

// tests/integration.rs
use ralphx_lib::AppState;

#[tokio::test]
async fn test_full_workflow() {
    let state = AppState::new_test();
    // Test complete workflow
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 1mo ago First seen · 133 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 4e5e41826369

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testing-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository aigentive/RalphX (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 691 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.