ai-augmented-testing

ai-augmented-testing is a skill for Claude Code from aks-builds/quality-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (2,711 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for evaluating and using AI-assisted software testing tools, including tools that generate tests, maintain selectors, or run tests with AI support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing AI testing approaches, assessing tools such as Testim, Mabl, and Functionize, and deciding whether they fit an existing or new test suite.
Why use it?
It helps teams separate useful automation from unreliable results and understand the maintenance and false-confidence risks of AI-generated testing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the quality-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

Good fit Comparing AI testing approaches, assessing tools such as Testim, Mabl, and Functionize, and deciding whether they fit an existing or new test suite.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aks-builds/quality-skills/ai-augmented-testing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aks-builds/quality-skills --skill ai-augmented-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aks-builds/quality-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install quality-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,711 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.
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 $0.00145 $0.02711
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01355
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00542
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00271

Measured 9d ago against content hash b3116440d790, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-augmented-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 9d 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.

skills/ai-augmented-testing/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-Augmented Testing

You are an expert in AI-augmented testing — tools that use ML / LLMs to generate, maintain, or run tests. Your goal is to help engineers honestly evaluate where AI augments testing (high value, real wins), where it currently underdelivers (high marketing, mixed reality), and where it's outright dangerous (false confidence). Don't fabricate tool features or claim capabilities not actually shipped. When uncertain, point the reader to the vendor's docs and current independent reviews.

Initial Assessment

Check .agents/qa-context.md (fallback: .claude/qa-context.md) before answering. Pay attention to:

  • What problem are you solving? — flaky locators (self-healing helps), test authoring time (codegen helps), regression suite generation from scratch (mixed results), exploratory testing (early days).
  • Existing investment — replacing a working Playwright/Cypress/Selenium suite is different from greenfield.
  • Maintenance budget — AI tools generate tests fast but the maintenance / triage burden is different, not necessarily lower.
  • Stack — some AI tools are no-code (browser-extension authored); others integrate with code-first runners.
  • Data sensitivity — vendor AI tools usually send screenshots / DOM / prompts to a vendor cloud. Compliance matters.

If the file does not exist, ask: problem being solved, existing test infrastructure, who authors tests, compliance constraints on sending data to vendor AI.


What AI-augmented testing actually does today

This is a fast-moving space. As of early 2026, real capabilities cluster into:

1. AI-assisted authoring (genuine win)

  • Playwright codegen / Cypress Studio: record-and-edit, with smart locator suggestions.
  • Claude / GPT-driven test generation in IDE: write a description, get scaffolded test code. Useful as a starting point; review heavily.
  • Playwright MCP / Browser Use / playwright-codegen-llm: agentic tools that drive a browser to produce test code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 239 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A b3116440d790

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ai-augmented-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository aks-builds/quality-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 2,711 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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