test-discipline

test-discipline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bradygaster/squad. It costs 12 tokens per session (413 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of test-discipline, MIT.

A testing rule for software changes that affect APIs, which are the public functions or interfaces other code relies on.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps update tests when API signatures change, keep expected file counts and arrays accurate, and diagnose CI failures caused by stale assertions.
Why use it?
It keeps tests aligned with changed interfaces and files, preventing outdated checks from blocking continuous integration, the automated build-and-test process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

bradygaster/squad is a tool that creates a human-directed team of AI development agents inside a project repository through GitHub Copilot. Developers use it to delegate work among persistent specialists such as frontend, backend, testing, and lead agents while retaining responsibility for decisions and review. The catalogue entries are the skills, agents, and instructions that define and coordinate those team members.

bradygaster/squad · 3,154 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bradygaster/squad/test-discipline
Any agent
npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill test-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squad

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 413 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00012 $0.00413
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6efe81cabcd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-discipline 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to test-discipline — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

packages/squad-cli/templates/skills/test-discipline/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Context

When APIs or public interfaces change, tests must be updated in the same commit. When test assertions reference file counts or expected arrays, they must be kept in sync with disk reality. Stale tests block CI for other contributors.

Patterns

  • API changes → test updates (same commit): If you change a function signature, public interface, or exported API, update the corresponding tests before committing
  • Test assertions → disk reality: When test files contain expected counts (e.g., EXPECTED_FEATURES, EXPECTED_SCENARIOS), they must match the actual files on disk
  • Add files → update assertions: When adding docs pages, features, or any counted resource, update the test assertion array in the same commit
  • CI failures → check assertions first: Before debugging complex failures, verify test assertion arrays match filesystem state

Examples

Correct:

  • Changed auth API signature → updated auth.test.ts in same commit
  • Added distributed-mesh.md to features/ → added 'distributed-mesh' to EXPECTED_FEATURES array
  • Deleted two scenario files → removed entries from EXPECTED_SCENARIOS

Incorrect:

  • Changed spawn parameters → committed without updating casting.test.ts (CI breaks for next person)
  • Added built-in-roles.md → left EXPECTED_FEATURES at old count (PR blocked)
  • Test says "expected 7 files" but disk has 25 (assertion staleness)

Anti-Patterns

  • Committing API changes without test updates ("I'll fix tests later")
  • Treating test assertion arrays as static (they evolve with content)
  • Assuming CI passing means coverage is correct (stale assertions can pass while being wrong)
  • Leaving gaps for other agents to discover
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. 4d ago First seen · 38 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 6efe81cabcd2

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test-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository bradygaster/squad (3,154 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 413 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to test-discipline, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.