canary-test-pipeline

canary-test-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bop-clocktower/canary. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,354 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A staged process for bringing a software test suite to a reliable state for continuous integration, meaning tests can run automatically as code changes are made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a test suite, improving one that is not ready for continuous integration, or updating tests after a major feature. It produces a final assessment of the suite's health and readiness.
Why use it?
It organizes risk review, edge-case discovery, failure analysis, and test writing into one process. It also records whether supporting test-harness tools are available so later stages use consistent assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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

Good fit Use it when starting a test suite, improving one that is not ready for continuous integration, or updating tests after a major feature. It produces a final assessment of the suite's health and readiness.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-test-pipeline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,354 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 $0.00054 $0.01354
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00677
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00135

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5aeb86332818, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canary-test-pipeline 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-test-pipeline/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canary: Test Pipeline

Runs the full test intelligence pipeline from risk assessment to verified CI readiness. Follows the same pattern as harness:docs-pipeline and harness:knowledge-pipeline — sequential phases, convergence loop, qualitative health report on exit.

When to Use

  • Starting a new test suite from scratch

  • Improving a suite that is not yet CI-ready

  • After a major feature lands and test coverage needs updating

  • When asked to "bring this suite to CI-ready"

Phases

Phase 0 — Probe, then gate (/canary-ci-ready)

Probe for the harness MCP exactly once, here, and thread the result through every later phase. Several sub-skills (canary-critical-areas, canary-failure-impact, canary-ci-ready) each adapt to whether harness primitives are available. Left alone they rediscover that independently, which is wasted work and — worse — can yield an inconsistent run where one phase scores against the graph and another silently falls back.

Record the probe result once:

harness: available    → phases may call get_impact, get_critical_paths,
                        get_perf_baselines, ask_graph
harness: unavailable  → every phase uses its documented fallback

Pass that verdict to each phase rather than letting it re-probe. If the probe is ambiguous, treat harness as unavailable — a consistent weaker run beats a run whose fidelity varies by phase, because a mixed run's health report cannot be compared against any previous one.

Then run canary-ci-ready as a baseline.

  • If CI-READY: inform the user and offer to exit or run an improvement sweep anyway.

  • If NOT CI-READY: show the score, continue to Phase 1.

Phase 1 — Assess (/canary-critical-areas)

Run canary-critical-areas on the repo (or --diff if provided). Save critical-areas.json automatically (no --save required when run inside the pipeline).

Present the top 5 areas and ask the user to confirm or trim the list before continuing.

Phase 2 — Discover (/canary-edge-cases)

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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 · 160 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 5aeb86332818

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canary-test-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository bop-clocktower/canary (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,354 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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