snapshot-testing-auditor

snapshot-testing-auditor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codebygarv/Ai-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of UI and JSON snapshot tests that flags large, unstable snapshots and suggests checks based on meaning, such as accessible roles and text. Snapshot tests save a rendered result and compare it later to detect changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Jest or Vitest snapshot tests, find false alarms, and replace oversized DOM or JSON snapshots with focused assertions.
Why use it?
It reduces failures caused by harmless styling changes, changing dates, or random IDs. It also helps prevent approving snapshot updates without checking what changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review Jest or Vitest snapshot tests, find false alarms, and replace oversized DOM or JSON snapshots with focused assertions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codebygarv/ai-skills/snapshot-testing-auditor
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 codebygarv/Ai-skills --skill snapshot-testing-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codebygarv/Ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 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 $0.00027 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 5d ago against content hash 76d8823caf63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

snapshot-testing-auditor 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 5d 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.

skills/testing/snapshot-testing-auditor/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Purpose

Audit test suites for brittle, oversized snapshot tests (Jest/Vitest toMatchSnapshot()) that create false alarms during trivial styling updates, blind -u approval habits, and slow CI runs, replacing them with precise semantic assertions.

When to Use

  • Developers routinely run jest -u without reading git diffs because snapshots break on every commit.
  • Huge 500-line JSON/HTML snapshots stored in repository bloating git history.
  • Distinguishing when inline snapshot testing is valuable vs when it provides illusory test coverage.

What to Analyze

  1. Snapshot Granularity: Giant DOM tree snapshots vs targeted component state / schema snapshots.
  2. Volatile Data: Dynamic dates, random UUIDs, or counter variables causing non-deterministic snapshot diffs.
  3. Assertion Intent: Is the snapshot verifying business logic or just blindly serializing HTML structure?
  4. Blind Update Risk: Identifying snapshots that were updated post-hoc without verifying correctness.
  5. Alternative Semantic Assertions: Converting DOM snapshots to accessible role/text assertions.

Output Format

  • Brittle Snapshot Audit Report: Categorized list of anti-pattern snapshots.
  • Refactored Test Snippets: Resilient semantic unit tests using @testing-library.
  • Snapshot Policy Guidelines: Concrete rules for when snapshots are permitted.

Avoid

  • Taking snapshots of 1,000-line component trees with all nested child dependencies rendered.
  • Snapshotting generated timestamps without mocking system clocks.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 34 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 76d8823caf63

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snapshot-testing-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository codebygarv/Ai-skills (25 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 350 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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