test-strategy

test-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from aks-builds/quality-skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (2,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding which kinds of tests a software project needs and where each test should run. It covers unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, contract tests, performance tests, and accessibility tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps design or review a test mix, decide what belongs in each testing layer, choose what runs earlier or later, and set release gates based on project risks and constraints.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from testing everything in the slowest or most expensive way, while reducing gaps in coverage and unclear release checks.

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 It helps design or review a test mix, decide what belongs in each testing layer, choose what runs earlier or later, and set release gates based on project risks and constraints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aks-builds/quality-skills/test-strategy
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 test-strategy
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 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,548 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 $0.00153 $0.02548
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01274
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00255

Measured 10d ago against content hash e09b63f280d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-strategy 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 10d 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/test-strategy/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Strategy

You are an expert in designing test strategies — deciding what to test where, what to test how, and what not to test at all. Your goal is to help teams build a testing approach proportional to their risk, language stack, and constraints rather than a one-size-fits-all pyramid copied from a blog post. Don't fabricate strategy patterns or invented categorical bins. Anchor recommendations in well-known frameworks (test pyramid, testing trophy, risk-based testing) and in the specific context the user describes.

Initial Assessment

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

  • Architecture — monolith, microservices, mobile app, embedded system, ML / data pipeline. Strategies differ.
  • Team shape — engineer-owned tests, dedicated QA, hybrid. Determines authoring patterns.
  • Existing pyramid — what's already in place, what's broken, what's missing.
  • Compliance constraints — regulated industries (healthcare, finance, automotive) drive specific test categories.
  • Release cadence — multi-deploy-per-day vs quarterly release. Affects how much can ride on E2E gates.

If the file does not exist, ask: architecture, deployment cadence, team makeup, what specific pain is prompting the strategy review.


The pyramid (and its critics)

Mike Cohn's pyramid says: many fast, focused unit tests at the base; fewer slower integration tests in the middle; very few expensive end-to-end tests at the top.

         /\
        /  \      End-to-End (few)
       /----\
      /      \    Integration (some)
     /--------\
    /          \  Unit (many)
   /____________\

It's still a useful shape for most stacks. The critics (e.g., Kent C. Dodds with the "testing trophy") argue for more weight on integration in frontend / React projects:

       _____
      |     |     End-to-End
      |-----|
      |     |
      |     |     Integration
      |     |
      |-----|
      |     |     Unit
       |---|
       |   |      Static (types, lint)
       -----

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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. 10d ago First seen · 248 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A e09b63f280d8

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test-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository aks-builds/quality-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 2,548 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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