canary-ci-ready

canary-ci-ready is a skill for Claude Code from bop-clocktower/canary. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,327 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-suite review that checks whether tests are suitable for continuous integration (CI), where automated tests run as part of code changes. It reviews coverage depth, flaky tests, assertions, critical paths, and runtime, including documented quarantined failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before adding a test suite to CI, when a CI run fails, or as a readiness gate in a broader testing workflow.
Why use it?
It shows why a suite is not ready for CI instead of treating every failure as the same problem. It also checks whether known failures are properly recorded and linked to open issues.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the canary plugin — 23 skills, 13 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before adding a test suite to CI, when a CI run fails, or as a readiness gate in a broader testing workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-ci-ready
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bop-clocktower/canary --skill canary-ci-ready
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bop-clocktower/canary

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install canary, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 13 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,327 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 $0.00064 $0.01327
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00664
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00133

Measured 10d ago against content hash ec3691ae40bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canary-ci-ready 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.

agents/skills/claude-code/canary-ci-ready/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canary: CI Ready

Analyses a test suite across five dimensions and produces a readiness score. Use this before promoting a suite to CI, or as the convergence gate in /canary-test-pipeline.

When to Use

  • Before wiring a new test suite into CI for the first time

  • When a CI run is failing and you need to understand why

  • As part of /canary-test-pipeline (Phase 0 and convergence gate)

  • When asked "is this suite ready for CI?"

The Five Checks

Run all five checks and score each pass / warn / fail.

1. Coverage depth

Read .canary/test-inventory.json if present. If absent or older than 7 days, run canary coverage to generate fresh data.

Default threshold: depth ≥ 2 for all endpoints in critical areas. Override with --threshold <n>.

  • pass — all critical-area endpoints at depth ≥ threshold

  • warn — some endpoints at depth 1 (hit but unasserted)

  • fail — any critical-area endpoint at depth 0

2. Flakiness

Read test-results/quarantine-ledger.json (or the path in .canary/company.json under quarantine_ledger_path if set).

A quarantined test is acceptable only when it has a linked open issue (Jira or GitHub). Check issue state:

  • Linked issue open → counts as verified (documented, tracked)

  • Linked issue closed → flag: quarantine should be resolved

  • No linked issue → fail: unlinked quarantine blocks CI-ready

3. Assertion quality

Read depth scores from the inventory. In critical-area endpoints:

  • pass — all tests at depth ≥ 2 (shaped assertions: result.ok or equivalent)

  • warn — some tests at depth 1 (status-only assertions)

  • fail — majority of critical-path tests at depth 1

4. Critical path coverage

Only run this check if .canary/critical-areas.json is present.

Cross-reference the top 5 risk-scored areas from critical-areas.json against test-inventory.json:

  • pass — all top-5 areas have at least one test at depth ≥ 1

  • warn — one area uncovered

  • fail — two or more top areas uncovered

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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 · 162 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A ec3691ae40bc

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canary-ci-ready is a skill published in the GitHub repository bop-clocktower/canary (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,327 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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