Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add bop-clocktower/canary --skill canary-promote-testgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bop-clocktower/canaryWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-promote-test)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-promote-test"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-promote-test/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-promote-test"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-promote-test.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00122 | $0.02921 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00061 | $0.01460 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00584 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00292 |
Grade A, and why
canary-promote-test 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Canary: Promote Test
Move a generated test from
tests/generated/into the committed test suite. Reviews the test for correctness, drops the generation header, relocates it under the appropriate suite directory, and confirms it runs in the project's normal test flow.
When to Use
- After
canary-generate-testproduced a file that has been validated against the SUT - When a user explicitly asks to "commit", "save", or "keep" a generated test
- When extending an existing suite with a new case the team has agreed to maintain
- NOT before the generated test has been executed and reviewed — promotion is the last step, not the first
- NOT for tests that need substantial rewriting — regenerate with a better prompt instead of hand-patching
- NOT for tests targeting throwaway investigations (perf spikes, ad-hoc bug
triage) — leave those in
tests/generated/
Process
Phase 0: GATE — Get the Structured Verdict First
Run this before reading the test. It is deterministic, takes no API key, and it will refuse the drafts that are not worth your review time.
canary promote-check tests/generated/api/orders_post.py --json
| Exit | Verdict | What it means |
|---|---|---|
0 |
promote |
No gating defect. Advisory findings may remain — your call. |
1 |
block |
A gating defect. Do not promote. Regenerate or fix. |
3 |
abstain |
No verdict could be produced. Promotion is not approved. |
Which axes gate, and why only those. Gating on all eight axes of a quality critique would block nearly every promotion, so only deterministic defects do:
| Axis | Rules | Gates | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
soundness |
SOUND-001/002/003 |
yes | Pins a value no correct implementation must produce |
assertions |
LINT-006 |
yes | A test that asserts nothing always passes |
flakiness |
FLAKE-001/002 |
yes | A hardcoded sleep in a committed suite is a future red |
vacuity |
VAC-001/003, annotated 002 |
yes | Cannot fail, or contradicts a declared @covers |
selectors |
LINT-001/002/003 |
no | Brittle, not wrong — a reviewer's call |
maintainability |
LINT-005, FLAKE-003/004 |
no | Style and softer signals |
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 229 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 086c9eca1f37
canary-promote-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository bop-clocktower/canary (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,921 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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