farley-score

farley-score is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method that rates automated tests against eight properties of good tests and combines the ratings into a weighted score.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a test suite, review newly written tests, or track test quality over time.
Why use it?
It gives test reviews a consistent way to identify unclear, fragile, hard-to-maintain, or unnecessary tests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess a test suite, review newly written tests, or track test quality over time.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,833 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.02833
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01133
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00283

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5843f58514d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

farley-score 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/dev-team/skills/farley-score/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Farley Score

Overview

Evaluates test quality using the 8 properties of good tests as described by Andrea Laforgia, based on Dave Farley's testing principles. Produces a quantitative "Farley Score" that teams can track over time.

Attribution: Andrea Laforgia / Dave Farley — properties of good automated tests.

Locating the tests to score. Prefer CodeGraph/Repowise over raw Grep/Glob for finding the test files in scope and the production code they exercise — grounding "Maintainable" and "Necessary" scores in real coupling and call-graph data instead of guessing from test names alone. See knowledge/codegraph-vs-graphify.md for tool selection and the fallback contract.

The 8 Properties

Each property is scored 1-10:

# Property Weight Description
1 Understandable 1.5 Can a new team member read the test and understand what behavior is verified? Clear names, obvious arrange-act-assert structure, no hidden setup.
2 Maintainable 1.5 Can the test be updated without deep knowledge of the implementation? Minimal coupling to internals, no fragile selectors, uses abstractions (page objects, builders).
3 Repeatable 1.2 Does it produce the same result every time? No time-dependence, no external service calls, no shared mutable state, deterministic data.
4 Atomic 1.0 Does it test exactly one behavior? Single assertion concept (multiple asserts on one object are fine), no test interdependency, independent setup/teardown.
5 Necessary 1.0 Does it verify behavior that matters? Not testing framework code, not duplicating another test, covers a real scenario or edge case.
6 Granular 1.0 Does it fail with a clear, specific message? Pinpoints the failure location, doesn't require debugging to understand what broke.
7 Fast 0.8 Does it run quickly enough for the feedback loop? Unit tests <100ms, integration tests <5s, E2E tests <30s.
8 First 1.0 Was it written before or alongside the implementation (TDD)? Evidence: test commit predates implementation, test names describe behavior not implementation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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 Changed · +3 lines 5843f58514d5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 163 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 3e76b9f56899

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farley-score is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,833 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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