pytest-dev

pytest-dev is a skill for Codex from BjornMelin/dev-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (787 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for writing and improving Python tests with pytest, a framework for running tests and organising test fixtures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create fixtures and markers, refactor tests, diagnose failures, add coverage, parallelise suites, and optimise GitHub Actions.
Why use it?
It helps reduce flaky tests, improve coverage, and make slow test suites and continuous-integration runs easier to manage.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to create fixtures and markers, refactor tests, diagnose failures, add coverage, parallelise suites, and optimise GitHub Actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bjornmelin/dev-skills/pytest-dev
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 BjornMelin/dev-skills --skill pytest-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BjornMelin/dev-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 787 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 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 $0.00097 $0.00787
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00079

Measured 9d ago against content hash 57ae6abd3458, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pytest-dev 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/junit_slowest.py, scripts/junit_split.py, scripts/run_pytest_filelist.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.

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/pytest-dev/SKILL.md · 70 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.

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Files

What ships with it

8 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. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 57ae6abd3458

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pytest-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository BjornMelin/dev-skills (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 787 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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