testing-guide

testing-guide is a skill for Claude Code from akaszubski/autonomous-dev. It costs 74 tokens per session (6,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for testing generative-AI software using structural checks, consistency checks, and test levels. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing tests before the code they verify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing tests, setting up test infrastructure, checking coverage, or validating that generated results match expectations.
Why use it?
It provides a way to organize tests for AI behavior, where output may vary and simple exact-match checks are often insufficient.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the autonomous-dev plugin — 29 skills, 26 commands, 17 agents shipped together

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 skills/akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide
Any agent
npx skills add akaszubski/autonomous-dev --skill testing-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akaszubski/autonomous-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autonomous-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 26 commands, 17 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for testing-guide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,919 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.06919
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.03460
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00692

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2e54cfb80ef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-guide scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (test-templates/fixture-examples.py, test-templates/integration-test-template.py, test-templates/unit-test-template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

return subprocess.CompletedProcess(
plugins/autonomous-dev/skills/testing-guide/SKILL.md · 641 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 641 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 2e54cfb80ef5

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testing-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository akaszubski/autonomous-dev (34 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 6,919 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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