test-strategy

test-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 21 tokens per session (441 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for planning software tests across unit, integration, component, contract, and end-to-end layers. It also covers risk-based planning and coverage measurements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create test plans, choose test layers, assess feature risks, and set coverage goals.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide what to test and where, so important risks are covered without treating every test as equally valuable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create test plans, choose test layers, assess feature risks, and set coverage goals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/test-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill test-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 441 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00021 $0.00441
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00044

Measured 8d ago against content hash f49153d7e48e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-strategy 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 8d 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.

categories/testing-qa/test-strategy/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Test Strategy

Design comprehensive test strategies that catch bugs early and scale with your product.

The Modern Test Pyramid

     E2E (5%)
    Integration (15%)
  Component/Contract (30%)
      Unit Tests (50%)

Layer Details

Layer Scope Speed Who Owns
Unit Single function/class ms Developers
Component UI component/module ms-s Developers
Contract API boundaries s Dev + QA
Integration Service interactions s-min QA
E2E Full user flows min QA + DevOps

Risk-Based Testing

  1. Identify risks for each feature (data loss, security, UX, performance)
  2. Score likelihood × impact
  3. Allocate test effort proportionally to risk score
  4. Reassess after each release

Coverage Goals

Type Target
Line coverage >80%
Branch coverage >75%
Mutation score >60%
Critical path E2E 100%
API endpoint tested >90%

Test Planning Template

## Feature: [Name]
- Unit tests: [count] — [files/scope]
- Integration tests: [count] — [services involved]
- E2E tests: [count] — [critical paths]
- Edge cases: [list]
- Performance threshold: [metric]

CI Integration

  • Unit/component tests on every PR (fail under 5 min)
  • Integration suite on every merge to main
  • E2E nightly or on demand
  • Flaky test detection → auto-quarantine → alert
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. 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A f49153d7e48e

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test-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 441 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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